The Folded Leaf

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1945. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Harper & Brothers, New York. 1945. 310 pgs. Laid in signed typed letter from William Maxwell on New Yorker stationary present. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped and scuffed along the edges and the spine ends). Bound tan cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Folded Leaf, first published in 1945, is a classic American coming-of-age novel. In the suburbs of Chicago in the 1920s, two boys initiate an unusual friendship: Lymie Peters, a skinny and somewhat clumsy boy who always gets good grades, and newcomer Spud Latham, a star athlete and mediocre student. Spud accepts Lymie’s devotion without questioning it, but once high school ends and the boys enter college, tensions begin to arise between them. Lymie is the first to meet Sally Forbes, but she will fall in love with Spud, and this will mark the beginning of the rift between them. But this rupture will be more than Lymie can bear. William Maxwell provides the reader with a moving portrayal of adolescence and the shift from youth into adulthood. E-179; 8.1 X 5.1 X 1.0 inches .