Heirs

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Near Fine. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [bumped at base of spine, very slight wear to front joint, front cover lettering just a touch rubbed; otherwise a nice-looking and exceptionally clean book]. Novel set in a small New Hampshire mill town, in which the native New Englanders are dying out (the principal characters are a young couple who find themselves unwillingly childless) and being supplanted by Polish immigrants. (Perhaps they've forgotten that they themselves came of immigrant stock; well, isn't that pretty much how it generally goes?) Per Wikipedia, the author "was a progressive thinker and an advocate for women's rights, birth control, and public education" whose writings, in addition to her eight novels (of which this was the second), included "numerous essays on controversial topics such as women's rights, birth control, and immigration policy." (She was also, alas, a believer in eugenics. Well, to quote Joe E. Brown, nobody's perfect.) .