Cross Creek (signed by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)

First Edition, First Printing (with the Scribner's "A" on the copyright page). Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' classic memoir of life in the Florida hamlet of Cross Creek. Inscribed by her on the front free endpaper. A wonderful and rare copy!

"Cross Creek is a bend in a country road, by land, and the flowing of Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake, by water."

Near Fine in a very good plus dustjacket with slight chipping and wear along the edges. Near fine copy in publisher's original green cloth, green titles ruled in silver, in a bright, fresh Robert Camp, Jr. designed beautiful pictorial dust jacket. Illustrations by Edward Shenton throughout. "It is hard to see how anyone can read Cross Creek without pleasure amounting to glee." (The Atlantic Monthly). Size: 8vo - over 7¾' - 9¾' tall. A wonderful and rare copy!