First retail edition, first printing, of The Homecoming, a Novel about Spencer's Mountain, by Earl Hamner, Jr., published by Random House in 1970, adapted from Hamner's Spencer's Mountain, to be famously adapted into the iconic "Walton's" Christmas movie, inspiring the Walton's TV series of the 1970's. The book comes complete with its original retail dust jacket with $4.95 price intact. Boards are very well-preserved with original gilt decoration. Uninscribed endpages are intact. Binding is very tight and square, text is very clean, bright, and crisp, as if unread. The lightly-edgeworn dust jacket comes sleeved in ph-neutral Mylar, ready to slip into your collection. Book measures approximately 8.5 x 6-inches, 115 pages, plus recipe page and About the Author page. This touching, iconic American first will make a wonderful holiday read or a very thoughtful gift.