where the red fern grows and related readings wilson rawls

The 1961 publication information was retained on the copyright page but without the “first edition” statement. A second printing appeared in 1971 with a price of $4.95 on the dust jacket. The book was published by Doubleday for an initial retail price of $3.95. 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. Wilson Rawls was born in the Ozark Mountains, which spread out over eastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas, on September 24, 1913. A scarce first printing of Where the Red Fern Grows, with noted condition issues.

Illustrated dust jacket by Reisie Lonette. 'It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. It is a moving adventure story and yet a tragically haunting tale of friendship between a young boy and his beloved coon hunting dogs. To begin with, everything was too perfect for anything unusual to happen. This copy is paired with the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $3.95 on front flap and no ISBN on rear flap, significant dampstain to top quarter, tissue repairs to front flap fold, short closed tears along top edge, light sunning to spine. Where the Red Fern Grows, published in 1961, by Wilson Rawls, is a classic novel that endures in the heart and mind ever after. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls I WHEN I LEFT MY OFFICE THAT BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAY, I HAD no idea what was in store for me. There were no schools where he lived so his mother taught Rawls and his sisters how. Previous ownership inscription on front pastedown, otherwise free of marginalia. Wilson Rawls grew up on a small farm in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma. Small moisture stain to front cover, wear to cloth at heel of spine. The first printing, with “first edition” statement on copyright page.

Red brick cloth, title stamped in white on spine. First edition, first printing of Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, in the scarce first state dust jacket.

Where the red fern grows and related readings wilson rawls