Tomorrow Will Be Better 1948 Betty Smith SIGNED First Edition [second book by author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]

Title: Tomorrow Will Be Better

Author: Betty Smith

Description: Signed by Betty Smith on half-title. Stated First Edition, with Harper's date code F-X, indicating a print date of June 1948. Fern green cloth boards with gilt on spine (a bit rubbed) and in the bottom corner of top cover, the publisher's device blind stamped. Slight wear to spine ends and corners; area of rubbing on top cover. Previous owner's name, address and date written on front free endpaper, else interior clean. 274 pages.

''The very things that made it an awkward follow-up to its beloved predecessor [A Tree Grows in Brooklyn] -- its cynicism about class mobility and its depiction of sexual dissatisfaction in marriage -- make it more intriguing now... Tomorrow Will Be Better is a dynamic depiction of everyday life in '20s New York City.'' - Maureen Corrigan, Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism, Georgetown University, and book critic for Fresh Air.

Betty Smith (1896-1972) was the author of the 1943 bestseller A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Tomorrow Will Be Better was published on August 18, 1948, a date requested by the author because it was on this day, in 1943, that A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was published.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Place: New York
Year: 1948