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A STRANGER AMONG US: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Chicago: OV Books / Other Voices, (2008). SIGNED first edition - A collection of stories by 30 authors from the US and elswhere - from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, and Zimbabwe, some published for the first time in the United States. Foreword by Aimee Liu. Contributors include Nathan Englander, Laila Lalami, Ana Menendez, Josip Novakovich, Wanda Coleman, Tony d'Souza, Samrat Upadhyay, Mary Yukari Waters, Luis Alfaro, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Rashad Majid, Carolyn Alessio, Diane Lefer, Amanda Eyre Ward, and many others. SIGNED on the title page by THREE contributors: Stacy Bierlein, Aimee Liu and Laila Lalami. Notes on contributors. xx, 392 pp. ISBN: 978-0976717737.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Promotional postcard laid in.
Book ID: 72526More details Price: $45.00 -
THE TEAHOUSE FIRE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of two women - one an American orphan adopted by a Japanese family and the other the daughter of that family -whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan. 391 pp. ISBN: 1-594489300.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80878More details Price: $20.00 -
THE TEAHOUSE FIRE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Riverhead Books, 2007. First edition - The author's first novel, the story of two women - one an American orphan adopted by a Japanese family and the other the daughter of that family -whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan. 390 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 55555More details Price: $20.00 -
THE IMPERIAL CRUISE: A Secret History of Empire and War.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 62138More details Price: $17.50 -
THE LADY AND THE MONK: Four Seasons in Kyoto.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Vintage Books, (1992.). SIGNED - The author's second book, an account of his stay in a Buddhist monastery in Japan, because he wanted to learn more about Zen Buddhism and Japan today. While he was there, he met a young woman who came to embody both the old and new Japan to him - the wife of a 'salaryman,' locked into an arranged marriage, but who was conversant with both the ancient tea ceremony and modern rock, who wore leg warmers one day and a kimono another. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author - "For -- Hope you have a wonderful time in Japan, with warmest wishes" and dated in 1993. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-679403086.
Condition: Good+ condition - usual toning to the pages, minor wear to covers.
Book ID: 50672More details Price: $15.00 -
NIGHTFALL OVER SHANGHAI.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Forge / TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2016). Hardcover first edition - The third book in this Canadian author's trilogy set in Shangaii against the backdrop of World War II. "It's 1944 and the Japanese are losing the war, but Shanghai is more dangerous than ever. After fleeing Nazi Europe, Dr. Franz Adler and his daughter, Hannah, have adjusted to life in their strange adopted city, but they are now imprisoned in the Shanghai Ghetto for refugee Jews. Franz is compelled to work as a surgeon for the hated Japanese military, while his Eurasian wife, Sunny, is recruited into a spy ring, providing crucial information to the Allies about the city's port." 404 pp. ISBN: 978-0765383808.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76897More details Price: $18.50 -
TIGERS IN THE SNOW.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some scattered pencil underlining and brackets - erasable.)
Book ID: 46764More details Price: $22.00 -
LAMPS IN THE WIND: South Indian College Women and Their Problems.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very good in illustrated cloth (previous owner's name, offsetting to the front endpaper), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 69139More details Price: $20.00 -
DEAD MAN IN THE SILVER MARKET.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953. dj. Hardcover - In this 'autobiographical essay,' the author presents a satirical view of his Indian (on his father's side) and Irish (on his mother's side) ancestry, complete with an account of being taken to visit his Indian grandmother at age 12 in a chapter entitled "My grandmother and the dirty English." 203 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 45184More details Price: $12.00 -
COMBAT RECON: My Year With the AVRN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1991.) dj. Hardcover - In 1967, as a young Army Lieutenant, the author was attached as an advisor to units of the ARVN ((Army of the Republic of Vietnam). He saw the South Vietnamese Army in action against the Viet Cong and he served as a Battalion advisor and later with a Reconnaissance Company. This book describes his conclusions that despite adverse conditions, and poor equipment and training, the ARVN fought bravely and professionally. Illustrated with 8 pages of photographs and 7 maps. 291 pp. ISBN: 0-312-054033.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 37578More details Price: $9.00 -
THE GRAND PEREGRINATION, Being the Life and Adventures of Fernao Mendes Pinto.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (toning to pages and endpapers, some chipping to the dj at the top of the spine)
Book ID: 84600More details Price: $45.00 -
AN HISTORICAL DISQUISITION CONCERNING THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH THE ANCIENTS HAD OF INDIA; and the progress of trade with that country prior to the discovery of the passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope. With an appendix, containing observations on the civil policy, the laws and judicial proceedings, the arts, the sciences, and religious institutions, of the Indians. VOLUME XII : INDIA of THE WORKS OF WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D.
Edition: Reprint.
London: Printed for W. Sharpe and Son, Allason and others, 1820. Hardcover - Volume XII only in the complete works of Robertson, complete in itself. A history of ancient India starting with Romans through the establishment off Portuguese in East Asia. Large folded map tipped onto page in between the two title pages. Includes an appendix, notes and illustrations, index. v, 402 pp.
Condition: Good condition overall in quarter leather binding and marbled boards (some wear to the sides of the spine and the corners, tanning to several pages, but still sturdy and very readable).
Book ID: 75364More details Price: $40.00 -
THE MEANING OF LIFE IN HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Beacon Press, (1952). Hardcover first edition - Looks at ancient India, the art of yoga, teachings of the Bhagavad Gita and early Buddhism and more. Glossary, bibliography, index. xi, 167 pp.
Condition: Good only in orange cloth - previous owner's name on front endpaper, some penciled notations, underlining and brackets, sunning to spine, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 75677More details Price: $12.50 -
LIVING AT THE MONASTERY, WORKING IN THE KITCHEN: Poems
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Chantilly, Virginia: Leaping Dog Press, 2001. SIGNED first edition - The author's fourth collection of poetry, written during eight years he spent living in Asia, and in the voice of Shih-te, cook and janitor at Kuo-ch'sing monastery during the T'sang Dynasty. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the title page. Copyright page indicates 100 copies, but this copy is not numbered. 72 pp plus a photograph and 'about the author.'. ISBN: 1-58775004X.
Condition: Very near fine in yellow glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79212More details Price: $21.50 -
THE MOON LADY
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, (1992.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Tan's first book for children, adapted from her novel "The Joy Luck Club" illustrated in gorgeous full color by Gretchen Shields. SIGNED by Tan on the title page. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-02-788304.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (crinkling to upper edge.) A beautiful copy of a lovely book.
Book ID: 18437More details Price: $65.00 -
THE DEVIL SOLDIER: The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of Frederick Townsend Ward, a young American mercenary born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1831, who became one of the most acclaimed military leaders in the Chinese empire. In 1859, in the midst of the Taiping Rebellion, Ward created the 'Ever Victorious Army' - otherwise known as the 'Devil Soldiers' in response to the powerful rebel threat - by training Chinese soldiers in Western methods. By the time he fell mortally wounded in battle in September 1862, his place in Chinese military history was assured. Illustrated photographs, map. List of cast of characters, notes, index. xiv, 366 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-679411143.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 73979More details Price: $25.00 -
ELOQUENCE IN TROUBLE: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh.
Edition: First edition.
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1998). Hardcover first edition - "The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to troubles talk, combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology." A title in the Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics series. Photographs, list of key characters, notes, references, index and glossary. xix, 300 pp. ISBN: 0-195106873.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in light tan boards with silver lettering, no dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 72781More details Price: $25.00 -
TEN THOUSAND LEAVES:Love Poems From The Manyoshu.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, (1985). Contains 136 poems, translated from the Japanese by Wright and arranged in a thematic sequence. These represent just a small selection from the Manyoshu - compiled in the 8th century, it contains 4,516 poems, one of the world's great collections of poetry) Includes an introduction by the translator. Illustrated throughout with classic Japanese paintings and drawings. Notes on the poems and poets. 94 pp. ISBN: 0-879512407.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74827More details Price: $12.50