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RAWLS, Wilson.

Where The Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy.

First Edition of Wilson Rawls' Where the Red Fern Grows; Signed by Him

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1961.

$2,800.00
Out of Stock Item Number: RRB-90345
* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete
First edition of one of the great classics of children's literature. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "With best wishes from the Author, Sincerely, Wilson Rawls." Some rubbing to the cloth, reinforcement with tape to the endpaper in near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Reisie Lonette.
“A rewarding book . . . [with] careful, precise observation, all of it rightly phrased....Very touching" (The New York Times Book Review). It was made into a 1974 film starring Stewart Petersen, James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, and Jack Ging. It was followed by a sequel in 1992, which starred Wilford Brimley, Chad McQueen, Lisa Whelchel, and Karen Carlson. The film was remade in 2003 and starred Joseph Ashton, Dabney Coleman, Ned Beatty and Dave Matthews.
$2,800.00
Out of Stock