From Plotzk to Boston
Boston: W.B. Clarke & Co., 1899. Very Good. Item #29756
Boston: W.B. Clarke & Co., 1899. Second Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey printed card wrappers; 80pp. Wrappers and textblock margins rather brittle and toned with a few shallow chips and losses, faint institutional rubberstamp inside front wrapper, else a Very Good and sound example.
The immigration rights activist Mary Antin's first work, autobiographical juvenilia written when she was just eleven-years-old and recently arrived in Boston from her native Plotzk in present-day Belarus. A laid in promotional leaflet describes her as a "little Yiddish maid" who translated this work into masterful English when she was thirteen and had assimilated to her adopted country.
Price: $150.00