FAST, Howard; Józef Brodzki, trans.; Olga Siemaszkowa, illus.

Tomek i Zaczarowana Furtka [Tony and the Wonderful Door]

Warszawa: Iskry, 1956. First Polish Edition. Slim octavo (25cm.); publisher's blue pictorial paper-covered boards; 77pp.; illus. throughout. Rubbing along extremities, corners a bit bumped, textblock unifromly toned, else Very Good and sound.

Translation of Fast's novel for young readers, in which the hero, a mixed-race, working class boy named Tony, discovers a door in his native Brooklyn which leads him into 17th-century Dutch New York. First issued independently by Fast's own company the Blue Heron Publishing Company in 1952, at the height of McCarthyism when Fast was unable to find a mainstream publisher due to his ties with the Communist Party.

Price: $125.00

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