Never Come Morning

New York: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1942). 1st Edition (C-R). Hardcover. (price-clipped) [light shelfwear only to book; the jacket has a few tiny nicks along the top and bottom edges, with a little fading at the spine]. "The story of Bruno and Steffi and the Chicago world of immigrant Poles that made them what they were." Algren's second novel, but generally considered (including by the author himself) as the first one of importance, centered around a Polish-American boxer who becomes a gangster and his girlfriend, whose association with him leads her into the world of prostitution. Wikipedia: "The novel offended members of Chicago's large Polish-American community, some of whose members denounced it as pro-Axis propaganda. Not knowing that Algren was of partly Jewish descent, some incensed Polish-American Chicagoans said he was pro-Nazi Nordic. His Polish-American critics persuaded Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly to ban the novel from the Chicago Public Library." (Stated "First Edition," with letter code C-R indicating a printing date of March 1942; the book was published the following month.) ***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." .