Up The Down Staircase.
"THERE IS A NEED FOR CLOSENESS, YET WE CAN'T GET TOO CLOSE. THE TEACHER-PUPIL RELATIONSHIP IS A KIND OF TIGHTROPE TO BE WALKED" "THERE IS A NEED FOR CLOSENESS, YET WE CAN'T GET TOO CLOSE. THE TEACHER-PUPIL RELATIONSHIP IS A KIND OF TIGHTROPE TO BE WALKED": FIRST EDITION OF UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE; INSCRIBED BY BEL KAUFMAN
Up The Down Staircase.
KAUFMAN, Bel.
Item Number: 62
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1964.
First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light shelfwear. Warmly inscribed by the author. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prize-winning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States; its very title has become part of the American idiom.
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