Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION] 1965 • Prentice-Hall

Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman

FIRST EDITION [1965] PRENTICE-HALL

Fifth Printing / 1965.

Front endpaper has been signed and personally inscribed by author Bel Kaufman and dated April 30th, 1965.

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.

Some minor discoloration and a touch of shelf wear to an otherwise stunning dust jacket. 

Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.  Cover price of 4.95 fully in tact on unclipped front-panel.

Book itself is pristine; looks and reads like new.

What Else But Home is a story of the love, cruelty, friendship and temptation that seethe beneath the seemingly placid surface of a typical small town. It is set in Old Kane, Illinois, in 1948.

Three men return to their changed hometown of Old Kane along very different paths-Cappy Giberson from journalism school, Drayton Hunt, his biological father, from prison, and Tick Giberson from a traveling evangelist's life. Tortuous love between Cappy and the amorous Oleeta Hetzel and a crime in their midst are among the complications as the men seek to build new lives.