Bitter Conquest

New York: Vantage Press. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1957). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, minor soiling to bottom of text block, one-time owner's florid signature on front endpaper]. Vanity press novel about a group of Norwegian immigrants settling in northern California in 1900. The primary character is Jon Nordahl, the second son of one of the families in the group, whose life experiences seem to (unsurprisingly) track pretty closely to those of the author, who was (also unsurprisingly) a member of an organization called the Sons of Norway. ***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." .