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Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. This American classic is set in the backwoods of Florida and is the story, in part, of the relationship between a boy and his pet fawn. First published in 1938 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939. With illustrations by Thomas B. Allen in brown monochrome. --- A handsome copy in brown cloth backed in quarter leather with decorations in gilt to covers and spine, gilt-stamped spine titling and 3 raised spine bands. All edges gilt, with sewn-in satin ribbon bookmark and eye-catching decorative endpapers. Lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- With water spotting to cloth on covers, some light scratching to gilt textblock edges, otherwise a bright, tightly-bound, unmarked copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (8), 380 pages .