first edition Hardcover
1943 (c.1942) · Boston
by Mangione, Jerre
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Fair dj. 1943 (c.1942). First Edition. Hardcover. [good sound copy, light shelfwear, minor soiling to bottom of text block, one-time owner's name and address in blue ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is edgeworn, spine faded with a couple of tiny chips at the top, large chunk torn away from the lower left corner of the front panel (taking the author's first name with it)]. "An entertaining and affectionate book about the spectacle of people of an old race in the process of becoming the life blood of a new Nation." The author's autobiographical chronicle of his youth in a Sicilian community in Rochester, N.Y.; a classic of American ethnic literature, called by one critic "one of the truly enduring books about the immigrant experience in this country." . (Inventory #: 19193)