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Where The Red Fern Grows; The story of two dogs and a boy
by Rawls, Wilson
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/near fine
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/near fine. First edition, first printing of Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, in the scarce first state dust jacket.. Octavo, 212pp. Red brick cloth, title stamped in white on spine. The first printing, with "first edition" statement on copyright page. Includes "advance reading copy" stamp on front endpaper. Dust remnant to top edge of text block, offsetting to endpapers, internally fine. In the publisher's near fine, first state dust jacket, $3.95 on front flap and no ISBN on rear flap, faint foxing to endpapers and verso, bright illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket by Reisie Lonette. An exceptional copy and likely the best to appear on the public market. Where the Red Fern Grows first appeared as a three-part series in The Saturday Evening Post in 1961, titled "The Hounds of Youth." This first printing in book form also appeared in 1961, where it received positive reviews, but sales were sluggish. The book was published by Doubleday for an initial retail price of $3.95. A second printing appeared in 1971 with a price of $4.95 on the dust jacket and identical publication information on the copyright page, but without the "first edition" statement.
Synopsis
Where the Red Fern Grows is a children's novel written by American author Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys and trains two Redbone Coonhound hunting dogs. The author, Wilson Rawls, grew up in Oklahoma and although he always aspired to be a writer, he had little formal education and struggled greatly with spelling and punctuation. Eventually, with the help and encouragement of his wife, he hand wrote the manuscript for Where the Red Fern Grows in three weeks, from the memory of previous manuscripts he had burned because he was ashamed of them. The story was picked up by the Saturday Evening Post where it was published in a series titled “The Hounds of Youth”. Doubleday the published the book the same year, changing the name and attempting to market it to adults, although the author had specifically written it for children. When it was published in 1961, initial sales of the book were slow, although today it has sold over seven millions copies and is required reading in many schools. t was made into a popular 1974 film starring Stewart Petersen, James Whitmore and Beverly Garland. The film was remade in 2003 and starred Joseph Ashton, Dabney Coleman, Ned Beatty and Dave Matthews. This book is a popular choice for early middle school reading classes, with a reading level appropriate to grades 4 and up. -
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- Seller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 15266
- Title
- Where The Red Fern Grows; The story of two dogs and a boy
- Author
- Rawls, Wilson
- Illustrator
- First edition, first printing of Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, in the scarce first state dust jacket.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- first edition Wilson Rawls, signed book Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls, Summer of Monkeys Rawls
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