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The Promised Land
de ANTIN, Mary
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Near fine
- Librería
-
Rocky River, Ohio, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo, 373pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, near fine, in the publisher's pale blue/gray cloth, decorated in gilt. Inner hinges just starting, and the front gutter exposed at the frontispiece, else a sound, fresh example. Presentation copy, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Antin on the day of publication (per a pencilled note) on the half-title page: "To Mrs. Albert H. Pratt, in memory of the inspiring occasion of our first meeting, and in the hope of many more. Mary Antin." Tipped in before the title page is a [4]pp. pamphlet, essentially a program of events hosted by Israel Antin (the author's father) and his family. It begins: "On the Eighth of May, 1914, we are going to hold a family reunion, to celebrate the Twentieth Anniversary of our landing in Boston. The story of these twenty years has a meaning too big to be hidden in the family circle, so we are asking a few of our friends and neighbors to consider with us, on our anniversary, what twenty years of America may bring to a group of thoughtful citizens." The program is addressed in ink to Mr. Pratt, and SIGNED by Mary Antin (by her married name, Mary Antin Grabau). The order of exercises follows, then the lyrics to "America." Attractive near-contemporary bookplate of Franklin S. Teny on the front paste-down. Antin was a Jewish immigrant to Boston, born in Poland. Her memoir of immigration and assimilation is a classic of immigrant literature, and of Judaica. While other titles of hers can be found in commerce signed, this effusive presentation copy of "The Promised Land" is distinctly scarcer, and includes a wonderful document of Antin's own family history in America. A superlative copy.
Sinopsis
Interweaving introspection with political commentaries, biography with history, The Promised Land (1912) brings to life the transformation of an East European Jewish immigrant into an American citizen. Mary Antin recounts "the process of uprooting, transportation, replanting, acclimitization, and development that took place in my own soul," and reveals the impact of a new culture and new standards of behavior on her family. A feeling of divisions—between Russia and America, Jews and Gentiles, Yiddish and English—ever-present in her narrative, is balanced by insights, amusing and serious, into ways to overcome them. In telling the story of one person, The Promised Land illuminates the lives of hundreds of thousands. This Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition includes eighteen black-and-white photographs from the book's first edition and reprints for the first time Antin's essay "How I wrote The Promised Land ."
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Detalles
- Librería
- Cleveland Book Company
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 10997
- Título
- The Promised Land
- Autor
- ANTIN, Mary
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1912
- Palabras clave
- American history, Immigration, American literature, Memoir
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Cleveland Book Company
Miembro de Biblio desde 2017
Rocky River, Ohio
Sobre Cleveland Book Company
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As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
As a small, independent bookseller in Cleveland, Ohio, I deal in general used, rare, and antiquarian books, autographs, manuscripts, pamphlets, and personal and family papers in all subjects. My family has been in the antiquarian book business since 1971. Are you moving, downsizing, or doing some spring cleaning? Did you inherit or otherwise come into some old books? Or, maybe you've collected modern novels from the last thirty or fifty years. No matter what kinds of books you have, we'd love to take a look at them! We travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and New York, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana, and will travel farther in some cases to look at whole libraries or even just a few particularly interesting books. Give us a call at (216) 352-3940 and we can talk more about the kinds of books you have.
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Gutter
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- Bookplate
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- Fine
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