Bronx Primitive : A Memoir
Rare and modern books
Simon, Kate
Harrap,
1989
Bronx Primitive : A Memoir
Rare and modern books
Simon, Kate
Harrap,
1989
9.75 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1989
- ISBN
- 0245547444
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Simon, Kate
- Publishers
- Harrap
- Size
- 9.5 x 6.25 inches
- Edition
- First Edition
- Keyword
- New York, Biography, Polish Jewish Immigrants
- Cover description
- Very Good
- Binding description
- Hard Cover
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- True
Description
This book contains Bronx Primitive and A Wider World, now in one volume. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper edge. 303pp. This book captures the immigrant neighbourhood of the Bronx in New York during the Depression years of the 1920s, told by the author, daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants who was brought up in a tenement block. It covers her life from the age of four when they arrived in the USA up to the threshold of womanhood with all its uncertainties and triumphs.
