Margaret ~ by Caroline Slade. Signet Books #769, First printing, stated, 1950. Standard vintage paperback, Presumably 35¢ cover price. Classic juvenile delinquent novel, great bad girl cover art of girls behind bars. Cover artist unknown. Slightly cocked, light to moderate wear, lamination pealing at the edges but largely intact.

Condition (Book: VG)

Another social case study in fictional form in the story of a group of children of the slums, conditioned by poverty and false values and fear -- and the ever-present yearning to have things they can't achieve. One of those children, Margaret, whose father bents her for petty thievery, whose paralyzed grandmother taunts her with throats of the wickedness and sadism of the law -- once it catches her- Margaret is caught in the mesh of vice and degeneracy, and used as a procuress by a group of elderly men whose taste runs to children and very young girls. Just how Maragaret is used, her vanity fed, her ambitions catered to- and how she, in turn, was made the scapegoat for her employers, and- as the story closes- enters the dreaded Grey House for delinquent girls with which her grandmother had threatened her, and closes her heart and mind to any confession of softness -- of regret for the lives she wrecked. - Kirkus