Sicilian Street

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. (c.1949). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [light shelfwear, faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket has one tiny tear and associated short diagonal crease at top of front panel, horizontal crease near top of front panel, minor wear to spine extremities]. "The story of the Piazza, a street near the East River in the Italian Quarter of upper New York, where the entire population descends from the same little town in Sicily." The author (aka Hans Kafka, but apparently no relation to you-know-who) was Viennese, and was best-known as a screenwriter in the U.S. during the 1940s and 1950s. ***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." .