\"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" Betty Smith, 1st Edition, 1943 ($12,000)
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\"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" Betty Smith, 1st Edition, 1943 ($12,000):
$24.50
This 1st Edition of Betty Smith\'s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn published in 1943 is in great shape. Its cover, binding, and pages are well kept and in very good condition.
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. Francie grows up nurtured by the loving gallantries of her father, a singing waiter who drinks too much, and the rigorous austerities practiced by her brave mother, a janitress who reads to her children each night from the complete plays of Shakespeare and the \'Protestant Bible\'. The book was an instant best-seller, with 300,000 copies purchased in the first six weeks.
Writing in the Yale review, Orville Prescott praised A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as a \'rich and rare example of regional local color writing, filled to the scuppers with Brooklynese, Brooklyn folk-ways and Brooklyn atmosphere\" (New York Public Library Books of the Century).
Basis for the first film directed by Elia Kazan, which featured Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Oscar winners Peggy Ann Garner and James Dunn (who touchingly brought his considerable experience as a real alcoholic to the screen).
Similar copies of this American masterpiece sell for as much as $12,000 on abebooks.com
This book is an amazing gift for the collector and book lover in your life.
\"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn\" Betty Smith, 1st Edition, 1943 ($12,000):
$24.50