New York: Kensington, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - the story of three generations of Japanese women, from an arranged marriage which sent the matriach, Sava, to America through their internment during World War II. Glossary. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-7582-04558.

New York: Kensington, (2003.). First edition - The author's first novel - the story of three generations of Japanese women, from an arranged marriage which sent the matriach, Sava, to America through their internment during World War II. Glossary. 329 pp.

New York: Kensington, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - the story of three generations of Japanese women - from an arranged marriage, which sent the matriach, Sava, to America, through their internment during World War II. INSCRIBED on the title page. Glossary. 329 pp. ISBN: 0-7582-04558.

Peking (Beijing): The Foreign Language Press, 1963. A popular folktale of the Chuang, one of China's ethnic minorities who live in the the Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region in South China. Adapted by Chi Chih-hsi. Full color illustrations throughout by Yen Mei-hua. Small oblong format. 60 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel (third book) - in the story "Mei Xiang, who leaves her impoverished village to become part of Chairman MaoÕs dance troupe, or so she realizes once she arrives at the Forbidden Palace. With her cunning patriotism, Mei quickly becomes the 72-year-old ChairmanÕs lover, confidante and protegee, [Hua is also telling] the stories of the women who fought, sacrificed and endured during ChinaÕs Cultural Revolution, women who answered the call to serve their country Ñ mind, body and soul Ñ but whose truths were either distorted for propaganda or entirely excised from history." (Washington Post) Author's note on the years she spent researching this novel. 355 pp. ISBN: 978-0399178818.

New York: Dutton, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Laotian born author, one which follows follows a gay cook from his native, war-torn Laos to internment in Thailand to San Francisco. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-525942807.

New York & London: Readers International, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this renowned Korean writer, edited and with an introduction by Martin Holman. xvi, 172 pp. ISBN: 0-930523-571.

Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press (1995). First edition - A collection of six stories which offer the reader a rarely-glimpsed view of Korean life; each of the authors represented here has been the recipient of the prestigious Korean Peoples Literary Award, and their work focuses on ordinary Korean people and the impact of the war on their lives. Introduction by David McCann. Translated by Hyun-jae Yee Sallee and Teresa Margadonna Hyun. Notes on the authors and the translators. 167 pp. ISBN: 1-877727199.

New York: Harper Collins [Reagan Books], (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Japanese American writer's very highly praised first novel. 'Cast out of his native California, 'relocated' to an armed camp, and made a victim of almost unbearable family loss, Billy Fujita finds himself in the coldest reaches of Massachusetts in the closing months of World War II. A spirited widow, Margaret Kelly, has helped secure his release in the hope that Fujita, a horticulturist, will turn her barren land into a working farm. Together with Margaret, a war widow named Livvie, and her damaged young son, Garvin, Fujita becomes a reluctant participant in an impromptu family... a story of how even in the harshest soil the roots of love and family can thrive.' Appendix, glossary. 445 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0391642.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, (1965.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Three short stories, translated and with an introduction by Leon Picon. A title in the Library of Japanese Literature. 124 pp.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc., (1935). Hardcover first edition - The memoirs of an 20th century Japanese feminist and one of the first women elected to the Diet of Japan. She was best known as a pioneer in the birth control movement and a strong supporter of labour reform. Born into a family of samurai, she married a young baron at an early age, and they began their life together at the Miike coal fields in Japan and she witnessed first hand the hardships endured by the miners. In 1922, she was Margaret Sanger's guide during her first trip to Japan. Illustrated with photographs in black and white. 373 pp.

Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1974. Illustrated byTung Chen-Sheng and Chen Yu- Hsien. A collection of 8 short stories depicting life on the communes of Maoist China. An interesting book, with black and white pencil drawings. 139 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Jen's highly praised second novel, the story of Mona, the daughter of the Chang family in "Typical American." Set in an upscale New York suburb, in 1968, the "dawn of the age of ethnicity" this is about being free to forge your own identity. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-679445897.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of the Chang family - "who first come to the United States with no intention of staying. When the Communists assume control of China in 1949, though, Ralph Chang, his sister Theresa, and his wife Helen, find themselves in a crisis. At first, they cling to their old-world ideas of themselves. But as they begin to dream the American dream of self-invention, they move .. . from people who disparage all that is Òtypical AmericanÓ to people who might be seen as typically American themselves." 295 pp. ISBN: 0-395546893.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning author's third novel, about the new "half-half" American family. 379 pp. ISBN: 1-400042135.

New York: Viking, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her highly praised first novel, the story of a Japanese American girl coming of age, and piecing together the story of her family, in the Pacific Northwest in the 1950's. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-670-82680-4.

New York: Viking, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her highly praised first novel, the story of a Japanese American girl coming of age, and piecing together the story of her family, in the Pacific Northwest in the 1950's. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-670-82680-4.

Ashland, OR: Silver Light Publications, (2004). SIGNED first edition - The story of four generations of Chinese women, and of how the author, who was born in Hong Kong, found the courage to rebel against the cultural dictates handed down by her family, SIGNED on the title page. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-97448900X.

Ashland, OR: Silver Light Publications, (2004). SIGNED first edition - The story of four generations of Chinese women, and of how the author, who was born in Hong Kong, found the courage to rebel against the cultural dictates handed down by her family, INSCRIBED on the title page "To --- Enjoy the journey". 368 pp. ISBN: 0-97448900X.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight stories by this award winning writer, written over a period of 20 years from 1959 to 1979, and set in Vietnam, in the South China Sea, and in the cities and mountains of Japan. Translated from the Japanese by Cecelia Segawa Seigle. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-396091083.

Tokyo: Library Shichosha, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A selection of poems by this award-winning poet and critic, translated from the Japanese by Shozo Tokunaga, which includes poems spanning his entire career. SIGNED by Michio Kambayashi on a slip of paper printed "with the compliments of the author". Ribbon marker bound in. 49 pp. ISBN: 4-783710716.

Peking (Beijing): The Foreign Language Press, 1963 (c 1954). A graphic novel / comic strip from before the Cultural Revolution. Adapted from one chapter of Kao Yu-pao's autobiography, this tells of the part he played in the underground against the Japanese invaders in Northeast China before and in WWII. "The story thoroughly exposes the Japanese imperialists' oppression of the Chinese workers and faithfully brings out the militant struggle and lofty qualities of the Chinese working class led by the Chinese Communist Party." Illustrated in black and white on every page by Kao Yu-Pao, Tao Chih-an, Lu Tan, Pen Ching-yu, Wang Hsu-yang and Chou Li. Oblong format. 96 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The new China, where religious pilgrims cross paths with born-again capitalists and uprooted communards, is a chaos of true believers pursuing different, often conflicting, visions of fulfillment. The author and the illustrator, an American newsman and his Taiwanese wife, trail a series of such pilgrims: wandering farmhands, itinerant actors, a qi gong guru, a careerist policeman, a muckraking lawyer, a die-hard revolutionary agitator, a Taiwanese con man, a Tibetan lama, and many more. The result is neither a travelogue nor an analytic set piece, but a moral panorama, lit from within by the divergent hopes of Chinese citizens today." Illustrated by Mei-lang Hsu. 394 pp. ISBN: 0-374-299986.

New York: Avon, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - A coming of age story set in 1983 in San Francisco, the story of a young Chinese girl whose whole life seemed to revolve around the family's restaurant, Eggroll Wonderland. SIGNED on the title page. Issued as a paperback original. 278 pp.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2013). SIGNED first edition - A memoir which "dives into the difficulties facing women today - Chinese American and otherwise. . [It] combines personal anecdotes and tough love advice for a humorous, provocative look at how our families shape our personal foundations." While Keltner resisted being a Tiger Mom herself, she also writes with humor and understanding about her mother's combination of tough love and high expectations. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. ISBN: 978-0062229298.

New York: Avon, (2005.). First edition - Sequel to 'The Dim Sum of All Things' - continues the adventures of Lindsay, a third generation San Franciscan of Chinese descent. 277 pp. plus additional material about the author. ISBN: 9780060753221.

New York: Avon, (2004.). A funny and perceptive novel about a young woman, a third generation San Franciscan of Chinese descent. 344 pp. ISBN: 9780060560751.

New York: Doubleday, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - As a young child she witnessed the murder of her mother by her grandfather and uncle because she had laid with an American soldier and had, not just a bastard, but
but a honhyol--a mixed-race child, considered worth less than nothing, and brought dishonor on the family. Left at a Christian orphanage in postwar Seoul , adopted by a childless Fundamentalist pastor and his wife but constantly reminded that she wasn't good enough, she was married to an abusive and controlling man, and only after the birth of her daughter, was she then finally was able to save herself and her daughter. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-385496338.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this highly acclaimed Korean writer (his first book was a finalist for the National Book Award.)