Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385020597
- ISBN 13
- 9780385020596
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Brown boards with black writing on spine; top of book spine rumpled. Very small chip on top of front dust jacket; edges of front dust jacket very slightly worn. Top and bottom of dust jacket spine have shelf wear; tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition. Author's picture on back dust jacket; cover price of $13.95 on front dust jacket flap.
Doubleday First Edition; thirty-sixth printing as indicated by number line of "37 39 40 38 36" on copyright page .
Rawl's famous novel about two dogs and a boy that has withstood the test of time. Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
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
- Sherlock Joe's Book Hunting (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RAWLS004
- Title
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- Author
- Wilson Rawls
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; Later Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385020597
- ISBN 13
- 9780385020596
- Publisher
- Doubleday And Company, Ny
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Pages
- 212
- Keywords
- wilson rawls; where the red fern grows
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Young Adult;
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