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Simon, Kate

Bronx Primitive : A Memoir

Harrap, 1989

9.75 €

Godley Books

(Hyde, United Kingdom)

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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
Yes
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

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.