Cross Creek
by Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Hardcover without dust jacket, 368 pages including Shenton's "Decorations" (drawings); light cover edge wear, spine ends bumped, spine age darkened and stained, light stains to both covers, pages age toned, particularly exposed edges, pale faded old waterstaining evident on top edge and visible along top margins of many pages, but intact and complete, tight in binding although some looseness developing, all pages and endpapers unmarked, most pages clean except as noted, overall still a decent reading copy of the increasingly scarce Scribner First "A" Printing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. Illus. by Edward Shenton.
Synopsis
Originally published in 1942, Cross Creek has become a classic in modern American literature. For the millions of readers raised on The Yearling, here is the story of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's experiences in the remote Florida hamlet of Cross Creek, where she lived for thirteen years. From the daily labors of managing a seventy-two-acre orange grove to bouts with runaway pigs and a succession of unruly farmhands, Rawlings describes her life at the Creek with humor and spirit. Her tireless determination to overcome the challenges of her adopted home in the Florida backcountry, her deep-rooted love of the earth, and her genius for character and description result in a most delightful and heartwarming memoir.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 043128
- Title
- Cross Creek
- Author
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Illustrator
- Edward Shenton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- AMERICAN SOUTH GULF OF MEXICO FLORIDA Nonfiction Nature Natural History Science Description Social Commentary Race Relations Black Studies Orange Grove Farming
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Nature/Natural Science/Pets;
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