8vo. Half-title. Original green cloth, printed label on spine (fading to spine, some minor fading); unclipped dust jacket (some minor restoration along edges, a few short tears). 

FIRST EDITION, with codes "8-43" and "D-S" on copyright page. In the second(?) issue dust jacket priced $2.75 with "5338" and "5339" on the front and rear flap respectively, and with "How the Tree Grew" essay by Smith printed on verso. Smith's semi-autobiographical coming of age novel about an adolescent girl growing up in Williamsburg Brooklyn was the basis for Elia Kazan's first feature-length film, released in 1945, starring James Dunn, Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Peggy Ann Garner.  Garner won a Special Academy Award for Outstanding Child Actress for her role.