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Stephen Crane's "Maggie," $19,550, PBA Galleries

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From: Antiques & Collecting Magazine
Date: 20050101
Author:Anonymous

A first edition copy of Stephen Crane's, "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" (1893), privately issued under the pseudonym Jonathan Smith, sold for $19,550 at a sale of rare books and manuscripts held by PBA Galleries in San Francisco. The book was inscribed by Crane on the front cover to a friend. "Maggie" tells the tale of a young woman who grows up with a brutal father and an alcoholic mother, was wronged by her boyfriend and turns to prostitution before committing suicide.

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