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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920.  FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING       with correct 1920 date on title page. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER.  Good+. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; contemporary owner's name on front endpaper as well as the author's signature; some wear; lacking the rare dust jacket. The Polish-American author's classic. "In stories that draw heavily on her own life, Anzia Yezierska portrays the immigrant's struggle to become a "real" American, in such stories as "Yekl," "Hunger," "The Fat of the Land," and "How I Found America." Set mostly in New York's Lower East Side, the stories brilliantly evoke the oppressive atmosphere of crowded streets and shabby tenements and lay bare the despair of families trapped in unspeakable poverty, working at demeaning jobs, and coping with the barely hidden prejudices of their new land."--Penguin. Very scarce signed. .

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1881. Hardcover. Fair. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1881. FIRST EDITION. 150 pages. Illustrated. Two foldouts of NYC map. Fair. Tight binding; a light stain at top of most pages; contemporary owner's name and address on blank page; a few small tears; some foxing and smudges; chipping at spine ends; some wear. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .