From Plotzk to Boston
- Boston: W.B. Clarke & Co, 1899
Boston: W.B. Clarke & Co, 1899. Very Good. Boston: W.B. Clarke & Co., 1899. Second Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey printed card wrappers; 80pp. Wrappers and textblock margins rather brittle and toned with a few shallow chips and losses, faint institutional rubberstamp inside front wrapper, else a Very Good and sound example.
The immigration rights activist Mary Antin's first work, autobiographical juvenilia written when she was just eleven-years-old and recently arrived in Boston from her native Plotzk in present-day Belarus. A laid in promotional leaflet describes her as a "little Yiddish maid" who translated this work into masterful English when she was thirteen and had assimilated to her adopted country.
The immigration rights activist Mary Antin's first work, autobiographical juvenilia written when she was just eleven-years-old and recently arrived in Boston from her native Plotzk in present-day Belarus. A laid in promotional leaflet describes her as a "little Yiddish maid" who translated this work into masterful English when she was thirteen and had assimilated to her adopted country.