Chametzky, Jules.
From the Ghetto: The Fiction of Abraham Cahan.
The University of Massachusetts Press, 1977. First edition. 0870232258  161 pages.
Volume is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket show very light shelfwear. 
"The first systematic critique of Abraham Cahan's fiction (1891-1917). Founder and senior editor of the influential "Jewish Daily Forward," essayist of considerable merit, author of "The Rise of David Levinsky" (1917) and many other novels and short stories (one of which was the basis for the film "Hester Street"), Cahan played a crucial role in the acculturation of millions of Jewish immigrants into American life." (Dust jacket text)