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Smith, Betty

Maggie-Now

Harper and Brothers, New York; (1958)
  • $180
Octavo. 437pp. After her success with A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, the author now traces the story of Maggie-Now whose faither left Ireland at the end of the 19th century and his misadventures in coming to America. She is now carrying for him in a world without today's social programs. A very good novel bound in 1/4 black cloth over blue cloth stamped in orange depicting a bridge, spine lettering red and gilt, previous owner's bookplate, in unclipped pictorial dust jacket rubbed along the edges and some chipping to spine ends and corners.
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