Up the Down Staircase

Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1964). First Edition. Hardcover. [minimal shelfwear, very slight bump to upper front corner, nice-looking bookplate on front pastedown, a number of lightly-penciled margin notes in text (see Notes); the jacket is moderately edgeworn and lightly soiled, with teeny-tiny paper loss at a couple of corners, age-toning to front and spine panels]. Now-classic novel about the experience of a high school teacher, written by the author (the granddaughter of Sholom Aleichem) based on her own fifteen years' experience of teaching English in the New York City school system. Basis for the 1967 movie of the same name, starring Sandy Dennis in her first starring role after she won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (The movie was released in late June 1967, a good month for movie teachers: it was preceded by just a couple of weeks in U.S. theatres by TO SIR, WITH LOVE, starring Sidney Poitier.) NOTE that this copy has occasional brief comments penciled in the margins -- obviously written by somebody who had themselves been a teacher, as they tend to be sympathetic (albeit relatively un-profound) statements like "so true!" I have left these in place for their possible amusement value, BUT if you would prefer the book to be completely clean I will be glad to erase them without a trace. .