Flight Against the Wind

New York: The Odyssey Press. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1947). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, slight bumping to upper corners, a touch of dust-soiling to top edge of text block; the jacket is modestly edgeworn, with slight paper loss at top of spine and lower right corner of front panel]. This "vivid and heart-warming story of a brave woman -- a gentlewoman -- who came to New York from Denmark during the mid-twenties to buid a new life for her and her son" is, apparently, a memoir rather than a work of fiction, with the author claimed in the jacket blurb to have become "within the span of scarcely twenty years one of New York's leading designers and makers of home interiors." Commented a contemporary reviewer: "The story deals with her struggle for existence during the early twenties and the depression years, and is filled with many amusing incidents as she relates how she tried to understand and make herself understood in this land." (We'll have to take this obscure publisher's word for it, as I've found no independent confirmation of this lady's prominence in the interior design world -- although it's worth noting that I've seen another copy offered for sale with an authorial inscription wishing the inscribee "best wishes for the new apartment.") ***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." .