A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

by Betty Smith

$3,600 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943 . First edition. First printing of the classic coming-of-age story — a great copy, much nicer than typically seen. Near fine in very good plus jacket. Item #39548 Little Francie, growing up in a poverty-stricken white immigrant neighborhood amid alcoholism and family conflict, captured the determination that many in the 1940s could relate to

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