Journey to the Dawn

New York: The Beechhurst Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1951). First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice clean copy, minimal shelfwear; the jacket shows a touch of wear at several corners and the spine extremities]. This was the opening entry in what was originally intended to be a trilogy but ultimately became eleven published volumes, plus a twelfth that was left unfinished at the time of the author's death; it tells the extended saga of a family of immigrant Russian Jews, the Polonskys, much like Angoff's own. Angoff (1902-1979) was born in Minsk in the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus) and emigrated with his family to Boston in 1908. His journalism career, which began in 1923, was most notable for his association with H.L. Mencken, who hired him as an assistant in 1925; he became managing editor of Mencken's magazine The American Mercury in 1931, and held the post (discontinuously) until it ceased publication in 1951. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction." .