New York: Dutton, (1927.). Hardcover first edition - The true first edition of this story of a young boy growing up in the jungles and village of India, and the training of his homing pigeon, Gay-Neck, set against the backdrop of World War I, and told in both the voices of Ghond, the boy, and Gay-Neck, the pigeon. While it is "as informative as it is lyrical and profound [with Mukherji tracing] the birdÕs flight patterns and mating with exacting insight, in a deeper sense, the novel is a meditation on courage and redemption in a time of war. When Gay Neck and Ghond return to India after their military service, they are battle-scarred. 'I need to be healed of fear and hate,' Ghond says. 'I saw too much killing of man by man.' War leaves Gay Neck fearful and unable to fly. But with the help of the lamas in a Buddhist monastery deep in the Himalayas, the duo overcome their wartime fears and find inner peace." ( Pooja Makhijani, The Atlantic}. Strikingly illustrated with 3 black and white double page spreads, chapter headings and tailpieces by Boris Artzybasheff. Winner of the Newbery Medal for Children's Literature awarded in 1928 - the first Newbery award to an Asian-American author (it was more 70 years before the second Asian American recipient. ) One of the hardest to find of the Newbery award winning first editions. Illustrated endpapers. 197 pp.

New York: Dutton, (1927.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The true first edition of this story of a young boy growing up in the jungles and village of India, and the training of his homing pigeon, Gay-Neck, set against the backdrop of World War I, and told in both the voices of Ghond, the boy, and Gay-Neck, the pigeon. While it is "as informative as it is lyrical and profound [with Mukherji tracing] the bird's flight patterns and mating with exacting insight, in a deeper sense, the novel is a meditation on courage and redemption in a time of war. When Gay Neck and Ghond return to India after their military service, they are battle-scarred. 'I need to be healed of fear and hate,' Ghond says. 'I saw too much killing of man by man.' War leaves Gay Neck fearful and unable to fly. But with the help of the lamas in a Buddhist monastery deep in the Himalayas, the duo overcome their wartime fears and find inner peace." ( Pooja Makhijani, The Atlantic}. Strikingly illustrated with 3 black and white double page spreads, chapter headings and tailpieces by Boris Artzybasheff. Winner of the Newbery Medal for Children's Literature awarded in 1928 - the first Newbery award to an Asian-American author (it was more 70 years before the second Asian American recipient. ) One of the hardest to find Newbery award winning first editions, especially in dustjacket (even back in 2015, there were no copies in dust jacket listed online) . Illustrated endpapers. 197 pp.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2008). First edition - "When Kim Sunee was three years old, her mother took her to a marketplace, deposited her on a bench with a fistful of food, and promised she'd be right back. Three days later a policeman took the little girl, clutching what was now only a fistful of crumbs, to a police station and told her that she'd been abandoned by her mother.
Fast-forward almost 20 years and Kim's life is unrecognizable.. . At the age of 21, she becomes involved with a famous French businessman and suddenly finds herself living in France, mistress over his houses in Provence and Paris, and stepmother to his eight year-old daughter. Kim takes readers on a lyrical journey from Korea to New Orleans to Paris and Provence, along the way serving forth her favorite recipes." 372 pp.