RAWLS, Woodrow Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows. FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
Sale 1336 - Fine Books and Manuscripts, including Worlds of Tomorrow, and Americana
Jun 7, 2024
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Live / Chicago
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RAWLS, Woodrow Wilson (1913-1984). Where the Red Fern Grows the Story of Two Dogs and a Boy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.,1961.
8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in white and black (slight wear to extremities); in unclipped dust jacket (some creasing and some short tears with a few cellotape repairs verso). Provenance: Mark Spangler Wallace (presentation inscription from the author; gift inscription).
FIRST EDITION (stated) OF RAWL'S FIRST NOVEL. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY RAWLS on the front pastedown: "To Mark Sincerely Wilson Rawls 5-9-67." First published in 3 parts as "The Hounds of Youth" in the Saturday Evening Post, Where the Red Fern Grows is an autobiographical novel for children based on Rawls' childhood raising Redbone Coonhounds for hunting in the Ozark Mountains. The work was adapted to film in 1974 and again in 2003.
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