Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - 1942

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition, 1st printing ( Letter A on copyright page). This book may be a 1st Edition or an early Book Club Edition. No dust jacket. No indication of a book club edition. Green cloth covered boards with rough cut pages. Bright silver vignette on front cover with silver rectangles and green print on spine. Green and cream-colored tree-illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. 368 pages. Approximately 8 7/16" X 5 7/16". Bumped top corners, spine fade, and faint bottom corner area staining. No writing in book. Light top corner page creasing from bumping - gradually fades. Summary: This book is a partial autobiography of a city woman adjusting to a rural Florida life in the early half on the 20th century. It is the author's tale of learning to live with the people, on the soil, and from the soil. She learns to live with the unexpected and relates the humorous incidents and sometimes the violence. Most of the book is comedy and includes a mouth-watering chapter on cooking. The characterization is superb and Rawlings descriptions of this region in this time period and its natural elements are unique and captivating.