New York: Scribner's, 1936. First Edition Inscribed by Scribner's editor, Maxwell Perkins to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on the front endpaper: 'To Marjorie, With admiration and affection from Maxwell Perkins, May 22nd, 1936.' A very good or better copy in rose cloth, (slight fade to the edge of the front panel), gilt titles to the spine in a bright dustwrapper showing some overall use. Ex-Libris Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, with her pencil quotations marking passages throughout the book. On the margin of pp. 17, Rawlings wrote, 'Something you can't understand or believe until it happens', in reference to Wolfe's passage, 'I wanted to lead the same kind of obscure and private life I'd always had and not be told about my fame and success'. Provenance: Philip May, Sr., close friend of Rawlings and her husband Norton Baskin. May acted as Rawlings' attorney in the critical Cross Creek Trial. Subsequent to her death, a portion of her personal library and correspondence passed to May, Sr. and then to his son, Philip May, Jr.. First Edition.