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Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy
by Rawls, Wilson
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961. Early printing. Hardcover. Good. 212 pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] in full rust-brown cloth covered boards. Lacking the dust jacket. Light wear to extremities, a few small stains and marks to boards and preliminary pages, spine is very lightly cocked. Previous owner's name neatly written in pencil on the verso of the front flyleaf, otherwise a clean and unmarked copy. The classic coming of age story about Billy Coleman and his Coonhounds. Later adapted into the classic film of the same name. This title was awarded the 1987 Massachusetts Children's Book Award, the 1989 New Hampshire Great Stone Face Award, and the 1981 North Dakota Flicker Tale Children's Book Award.
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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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65807
- Title
- Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy
- Author
- Rawls, Wilson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Books into film; Disney; Idaho writer; hardcover; Wilson Rawls; TBL124
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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- Jacket
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- New
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- Octavo
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- Cocked
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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