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TRASH
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Kodansha International, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Japanese novelist - Japan's most liberated woman writer - to appear in English in the US. Translated by Sonya L. Johnson. 372 pp. ISBN: 1-56836-0185.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35789More details Price: $20.00 -
ALWAYS COME HOME TO ME.
Edition: First printing.
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Charming story of a young twins, a brother and sister, who live in a small village in Northern China and the pet doves they nuture and love, illustrated with the author's vibrant gouache paintings. SIGNED on the front endpaper, with a small drawing of Mei-Mei and her dove on her head, and dated in the year of publication. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 9780763628994.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 44747More details Price: $30.00 -
ALWAYS COME HOME TO ME.
Edition: First printing.
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Charming story of a young twins, a brother and sister, who live in a small village in Northern China and the pet doves they nuture and love, illustrated with the author's vibrant gouache paintings. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, with a drawing of Mei-Mei with one dove on her head and the other in her arms, and dated in the year of publication. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 9780763628994.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 44748More details Price: $35.00 -
BABA: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The artist / author's first book, one in which she retells her father`s story of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the fourth son of a prominent Manchurian family and his odyssey included the years of the Japanese occupation of China, the Russian onslaught upon Northeastern China and the civil war that followed. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full page watercolor paintings by the author as well as many black and white drawings. Preface by Amy Tan. Large square format. 211 pp plus a final portrait of her father. ISBN: 0-15-1000638.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 58747More details Price: $25.00 -
BABA: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The artist / author's first book, one in which she retells her father`s story of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the fourth son of a prominent Manchurian family and his odyssey included the years of the Japanese occupation of China, the Russian onslaught upon Northeastern China and the civil war that followed. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full page watercolor paintings by the author as well as many black and white drawings. Preface by Amy Tan. SIGNED by both Belle Yang and Amy Tan on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. Large square format. 211 pp plus a final portrait of her father. ISBN: 0-15-1000638.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64291More details Price: $45.00 -
BABA: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1996). SIGNED - The artist / author's first book, one in which she retells her father`s story of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the fourth son of a prominent Manchurian family and his odyssey included the years of the Japanese occupation of China, the Russian onslaught upon Northeastern China and the civil war that followed. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full page watercolor paintings by the author as well as many black and white drawings. Preface by Amy Tan. Boldly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication, with a drawing of a cat by Yang. Large square format. 211 pp plus a final portrait of her father. ISBN: 0-15-1000638.
Condition: Very good+ (covers slightly bent).
Book ID: 72854More details Price: $25.00 -
BOXERS & SAINTS (Set of 2 volumes in slipcase)
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps, in a fine slipcase.
Book ID: 58853More details Price: $130.00 -
SCHOOLMASTER - NI HUAN-CHIH.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, (1978.) dj. Hardcover - Novel originally written in 1929, first translated into English by A.C. Barnes in 1958. 335 pp.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (chips to edge of dj, toning to spine and edges.)
Book ID: 35827More details Price: $15.00 -
FALLING LEAVES: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in London as FALLING LEAVES RETURN TO THEIR ROOTS, the story of a girl growing up in 1940s China and 1950s Hong Kong. ISBN: 0-471-24742-1.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 23794More details Price: $30.00 -
FALLING LEAVES: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Broadway Books, (1999). The story of a girl growing up in 1940s China and 1950s Hong Kong. Index. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-7679-03579.
Condition: Very good (usual light toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 55649More details Price: $10.00 -
ONE HUNDRED AND ONE WAYS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Bantam, 1999. First edition - First novel by this Japanese American writer - the story of a young woman torn between two cultures and two men who turns for answers to her unknown grandmother, once a famous geisha. Praise from Lisa See and Chitra Divakaruni who called it 'a thoughtful and magnetic tale.'
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 25796More details Price: $25.00 -
ONE HUNDRED AND ONE WAYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - ÔAn extraordinary debut novel ... the story of a woman, who, finding herself torn between two men and two cultures, turns for answers to an unknown Japanese grandmother, once a famous geisha.Õ Dust jacket praise from Lisa See, Jean Hegland and Chita Divakaruni (who called it Ôa thoughtful and magnetic taleÕ). ISBN: 0-553-110993.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy)
Book ID: 30029More details Price: $22.00 -
N.P.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Washington Square Press Books, (1995.). Second novel by the author of "Kitchen." Translated from the Japanese by Ann Sherif. Afterword. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-671-898264.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 47262More details Price: $9.00 -
SHIPWRECKS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1996.) dj. Hardcover - Originally published in 1982, this is the author's first novel to be translated into English, a haunting story set in medieval Japan, in a remote coastal village where the father of 9 year old Isaku has sold himself into indentured servitude to save his family from starvation. Translated from the Japanese by Mark Ealey. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1002118.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33295More details Price: $14.00 -
BEYOND THE GREAT MOUNTAINS: A Visual Poem about China.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful book by this Caldecott award winning artist, one which can be enjoyed on many levels. "Ed Young's spare prose, as lovely as a rice-paper painting, describes in measured detail the beautiful and mystical land that the author so clearly loves. The unique format and gorgeous paper-collage illustrations, highlighted with Chinese characters, combine to convey the many facets of China to form a poetic picture of the land's grace, depth, and majesty. Author's note and a list of the Chinese characters then and now. Square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-8118-43432.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 50242More details Price: $21.50 -
BEYOND THE GREAT MOUNTAINS: A Visual Poem about China.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2005.) dj. Hardcover - A beautiful book by this Caldecott award winning artist, one which can be enjoyed on many levels. "Ed Young's spare prose, as lovely as a rice-paper painting, describes in measured detail the beautiful and mystical land that the author so clearly loves. The unique format and gorgeous paper-collage illustrations, highlighted with Chinese characters, combine to convey the many facets of China to form a poetic picture of the land's grace, depth, and majesty. Author's note and a list of the Chinese characters then and now. Square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-8118-43432.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 50243More details Price: $18.50 -
CUSTOMS AND CULTURE OF OKINAWA.
Edition: Later printing, revised second edition.
Rutland, VT Charles E. Tuttle, (1968) dj. Hardcover - A book originally produced for the boys and girls attending the American schools on the military base of Okinawa. This included information on the island, its people, industries, religion, festivals, customs, fairy tales and more. Includes approximately 30 pages of native songs. 200 pp.
Condition: Fine in brown cloth with turquoise decorations and silver lettering in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped, short closed tear)
Book ID: 85376More details Price: $23.50 -
CHINA'S NATIONAL MINORITIES.
Edition: Pamphlet.
San Jose, CA: Panda Lodge, n.d. (ca 1974). An uncommom propaganda piece focusing on the gains in education and industrialization made by the minorities in China under socialism. Illustrated with photographs. 16 pp. including the cover.
Condition: Very good in stapled illustrated wrappers (some soiling to the covers)
Book ID: 69195More details Price: $25.00