![]() ![]() 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'. ![]() "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. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1943.įirst edition of Smith’s classic first novel about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. ![]()
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