first edition Hardcover
1899 · Boston, Mass
by ANTIN, Mary
Boston, Mass: W. B. Clarke & Co, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Small 8vo. Pp. [1-7], 8-80. Three-page foreword by Israel Zangwill. Bound in the publisher's red pebble-grain cloth, gilt lettering stamped on spine. Bookseller's tag on rear pastedown (Gotham Book Mart). General wear to extremities of cloth, with corners worn through, spine darkened and with wear to head and tail. Despite those factors, book remains well bound and text block sturdy and bright. Now protected with a clear, archival sleeve. Rare in the first edition. Antin's perceptive piece of juvenilia documenting her family's emigration from Polatsk, Belarus (then Poltzk, in (truncated)