"Forty years before Holden Caulfield abandoned Pencey Prep to begin his ill-fated Manhattan odyssey, Francie Nolan struggled to obtain an education in the teeming tenement neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. 23, 1943." Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with some professional restoration. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the month of publication, "For Foster and Marian Best Love Betty Smith Aug. First edition of Smith's classic first novel about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1943.
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