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The Drugstore Cat
NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, (1949). The first children's book by the author of The Street and The Narrows, among others. Inscribed by Petry in the year of publication "For the Koopman and the Schino children." Petry was educated as a pharmacist and had worked in her family's Connecticut drug store before moving to Harlem to write The Street. Mild dampstaining to upper board edges and foredge; near fine in a bright, very good dust jacket, again with dampstaining to the edges and folds. An uncommon book; rare signed. [#033221] SOLD

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