Picture of the first edition copyright page for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Picture of the 1943 first edition dust jacket for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. $2.75 price is on the upper corner of the front dust jacket flap, and '5338' is on the bottom.

Binding is green cloth with paper spine label. The first edition identification criteria are as follows: FIRST EDITION is stated on the copyright page above 'D-S' and below '8-43'. It was 443 pages long, and the original retail price was $2.75. Pages: 443 The first edition of this classic Betty Smith book was published by Harper and Brothers in 1943.

N° de ref.First Edition Points and Criteria for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn James Dunn won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the film. It was the basis for the 1945 film directed by Elia Kazan, starring James Dunn, Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Peggy Ann Garner, who won a Special Academy Award for Outstanding Child Actress of 1945. 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, 207). The book was an instant best-seller, with 300,000 copies purchased in the first six weeks. 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. First 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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