My Sister Eileen 1942 Ruth McKenney ~ movie tie-in dust jacket ~ Greenwich Village memoir

Title: My Sister Eileen

Author: Ruth McKenney

Description: Red cloth with yellow lettering on spine and front cover. Copyright date is 1938. Previous owner's name and address written on ffep, else internally clean. Pages a bit toned. Dust jacket shows just a touch of edgewear; in an archival mylar sleeve. 226 pages.

The author's memoir, originally published in the pages of The New Yorker, of her experiences growing up in Ohio and moving to Greenwich Village with her sister Eileen McKenney, Ruth as an aspiring writer and Eileen as an aspiring actress.

This is the reprint edition with the 1942 movie tie-in dust jacket. The 1942 Columbia Pictures movie starred Rosalind Russell, who later starred in ''Wonderful Town,'' Leonard Bernstein 1953 musical, which was also based on My Sister Eileen.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Very Good+

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Place: New York
Year: 1942

Keywords: Greenwich Village,