East Goes West

Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1965. Second edition. Hardcover quarto with cloth boards in white DJ. 401 pages, 23 cm. Mild rubbing and fraying to head and foot of spine as well as corners of boards. Mild to moderate soiling to covers of DJ. Very good in good DJ. . Hardcover.

First Korean-American published novelist. "In 1922 an eighteen-year-old Korean named Chungpa Han came to New York with four dollars and a few words of English. Fleeing a vulnerable but crumbling civilization in Korea, he fell in love with the democratic, dynamic society of the West. East Goes West is the chronicle of his experiences in America."-front flap. History. American dream. Immigrant.