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Author: Roth, Henry
Title: Call It Sleep
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Robert O. Ballou
Date Published: 1934
Description: 599 pp. (8vo) publisher‘s cloth. Printed by The Maple Press. First Edition.First printing of the author‘s first book.A story of Jewish immigrants in Brownsville and the Lower East Side of New York City from 1911 to 1913, which Alfred Kazin called “the most profound novel of Jewish life by an American.“ Rideout called Roth‘s book “the most distinguished single proletarian novel“ (The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954, p. 186).
Author: Roth, Henry
Title: Call It Sleep
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Robert O. Ballou
Date Published: 1934
Description: 599 pp. (8vo) publisher‘s cloth. Printed by The Maple Press. First Edition.First printing of the author‘s first book.A story of Jewish immigrants in Brownsville and the Lower East Side of New York City from 1911 to 1913, which Alfred Kazin called “the most profound novel of Jewish life by an American.“ Rideout called Roth‘s book “the most distinguished single proletarian novel“ (The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954, p. 186).
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Cloth spine and extremities browned, front hinge and first several leaves quite shaken, gentle toning; still very good.
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