A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Smith Betty, Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near-fine with attractive bookplate on front pastedown and small signature at top of half-title page, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a near-fine dust jacket (first-state with no text on reverse) with some professional restoration. SIGNED BY BETTY SMITH on the flyleaf, and housed in a custom-made slipcase. A beautiful signed copy of this famous novel, basis for the 1945 film directed by Elia Kazan. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing in a first-state dust jacket with no text on reverse. Very good plus with fading to spine and touch of soiling; interior bright and clean save for touch of foxing to a few pages. Married to a very good unrestored first printing dust jacket ($2.75 price intact) with wear to folds and extremities, minor clear tape residue near top of spine, and faint staining to top edge of flaps. INSCRIBED BY BETTY SMITH on the flyleaf: "For John and Darice from Betty Smith Aug. 23, 1943" (five days after the publication date). Ms. Smith moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1938 and wrote the novel while living there--this copy came from an estate two streets over from where she lived. A rare inscribed copy of this famous novel, basis for the 1945 film directed by Elia Kazan. Inscribed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: very good plus. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first. INSCRIBED first edition, as stated on copyright page. Book very good plus, tanning along edges, corners very slightly rubbed, spine ends dented in, small water stains to edges of rear paste-down and rear free end paper. Dust jacket very good, covered in attached plastic, some wear. Housed in custom-made slipcase.

hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first. First edition, as stated on copyright page. SIGNED front end papers added. Book very good, water stain to top of spine and part of top of covers, and to top edge right next to spine, very minor wear, front corner slightly bumped, former owner's name to top of front free end paper. Dust jacket very good, some minor wear. Housed in custom-made slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith. First edition first printing with "First Edition" stated on the copyright page. Signed by the author Betty Smith on a professionally tipped in page from a signed limited edition issued by the publisher - therefore the authenticity is guaranteed. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1943. The book measures 5.5" x 8.25", 443 pages. With an original first printing dust jacket, with no text on the verso. The dust jacket is in fair condition. Heavy creasing and folding to the panels with tears and chips at the edges. Large piece of the spine missing at the bottom and onto the front panel. Chipping at the joints and flap folds. Tape repairs made to the verso at the flap folds and joints. The original price of $2.75 present on the front flap. The book is in near fine condition. The green cloth boards are very well preserved. Sun-fading to the areas no longer protected by the dust jacket. Previous owner's name at the top of the front pastedown. Old bookstore ticket on the rear pastedown. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.

First edition of Smith's classic first novel. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Sincerely, Betty Smith Brooklyn, N.Y. September, 1943." Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. An exceptional example. "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, 207). 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. James Dunn won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the film.

First edition of Smith's classic first novel about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. Octavo, original green cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Foster and Marian Best Love Betty Smith Aug. 23, 1943." Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with some professional restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. "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, 207). 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. James Dunn won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the film.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First printing. This copy is SIGNED by Betty Smith on a laid in signature. A spectacular dustjacket that is rich in color with slight wear to the edges. This original, First Issue dustjacket, with no text printed behind the back dustjacket is seldom seen in this nice condition. The book is in excellent shape and appears to be unread. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with a hint of wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a beautiful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A terrific copy. We buy Betty Smith First Editions. Signed by Author(s).