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MONKEY HUNTING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A multi-generational story, which follows one family from China to Cuba in 1857 and to the United States in modern times. INSCRIBED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-375-410562.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86362More details Price: $30.00 -
MONKEY HUNTING.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A multi-generational story, which follows one family from China to Cuba in 1857 and to the United States in modern times. SIGNED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-375-410562.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48953More details Price: $28.50 -
THIEVES' HONOR.
Edition: 2nd edition..
Condition: Very good in pale green cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, no dust jacket..
Book ID: 72571More details Price: $17.50 -
FORMOSA: A Study in Chinese History.
Edition: First US printing.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1966. Hardcover first edition - A study of the history of the island now known as Taiwan. Chapters on Admiral Cheng Ho's visit to Formosa, the house of Cheng, the age of unrest, Liu Ming-ch'uan the master builder, the first Asian Republic, the Japanese occupation, and Formosa since 1945 and more. Illustrated with ten black and white plates, 5 maps. Bibliography, index. xviii, 229 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings, overall tight and clean, lacking the dj.
Book ID: 38658More details Price: $12.50 -
A SMALL TOWN CALLED HIBISCUS.
Edition: Paperback- 2nd printing.
Beijing: Chinese Literature Press (Panda Books). (1987.). Novel set in a mountain town in south Hunan (a town based in part on the one in which the author was born) which describes the effects of the political events of the 1960's upon several families. One review called this by turns, "appalling, tragic and humane" and Gu Hua has been praised for his wry humor and his sense of humanity. Translated from the Chinese by Gladys Jang. Includes a postscript by the author. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-835110745.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 33145More details Price: $12.00 -
THE CRAZED.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83893More details Price: $40.00 -
THE BRIDEGROOM: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of twelve short stories by the author of the National Book Award winning "Waiting." Each story is set in contemporary China, in Muji City, the setting for "Waiting."SIGNED on the title page. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-375-420673.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72765More details Price: $35.00 -
A FREE LIFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this National Book Award winning writer - one which follows the Wu family as they leave China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and attempt to build a new life in the US. Includes a section of poems by Nan Wu. 660 pp. ISBN: 9780375424656.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53059More details Price: $20.00 -
WAITING.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - Powerful novel of love and loyalty, and the conflict between the traditional culture and modern life, set in contemporary China and spanning 17 years. Winner of the National Book Award. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-375-406530.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36212More details Price: $13.50 -
A FREE LIFE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pantheon, (2007). Hardcover first edition - Novel by this National Book Award winning writer - one which follows the Wu family as they leave China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and attempt to build a new life in the US. Includes a section of poems by Nan Wu. 660 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58192More details Price: $24.00 -
WAITING.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Pantheon, (1999.). Powerful novel of love and loyalty, and the conflict between the traditional culture and modern life, set in contemporary China and spanning 17 years. Winner of the National Book Award. 308 pp.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 32396More details Price: $10.00 -
WAITING.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - Powerful novel of love and loyalty, and the conflict between the traditional culture and modern life, set in contemporary China and spanning 17 years. Winner of the National Book Award. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-375-406530.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 32395More details Price: $15.00 -
A FREE LIFE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by this National Book Award winning writer - one which follows the Wu family as they leave China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989 and attempt to build a new life in the US. Includes a section of poems by Nan Wu. SIGNED on the title page. 660 pp. ISBN: 9780375424656.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 64315More details Price: $35.00 -
NANJING REQUIEM
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some toning to edges of textblock and pages)
Book ID: 83140More details Price: $17.50 -
JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY, Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 1997.
Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1997. Official journal of the World History Association, published twice a year. Articles by the above contributors include a studies of Venice's cartographers in the 16th century, the Polynesian-European culture contacts, and expansion and 19th century Chinese missions abroad.
Condition: Fine in glossy blue wrappers.
Book ID: 12719More details Price: $15.00 -
BLACK SNOW.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. The second novel by one of China's most important young writers, a "portrait of a dissatisfied and emotionally illiterate young man's desperate search for meaning and companionship in the grey world under totalitarianism." 261 pp. ISBN: 0-871135302.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (crease on dj flap).
Book ID: 86537More details Price: $20.00 -
YEAR OF THE TIGER.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
London: Michael Joseph, (1996). First edition - International thriller set in the Himalayas in 1961 featuring Paul Chavasse, the dramatic tale of the rescue of a scientist from Chinese soil who held information vital to the West. 248 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed red and white wrappers (sticker of literary agency on first page)
Book ID: 82948More details Price: $20.00 -
FORBIDDEN CITY.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 89229More details Price: $21.50 -
FORMOSA STRAITS
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First edition - An international thriller, set in Taiwan, HongKong and prewar Shanghaii.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers as issued.
Book ID: 4785More details Price: $16.00 -
KAO'S BOYHOOD (Originlly entitled Child Labour)
Edition: 3rd printing.
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.
Condition: Good overall - toning to pages and covers, slight chipping to bottom edge of front cover.
Book ID: 86723More details Price: $40.00 -
COUSIN FELIX MEETS THE BUDDHA: And Other Encounters in China and Tibet.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 54333More details Price: $18.50 -
ENCHANTED EVENING: Volume III of the Autobiography of M. M. Kaye.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third volume in the autobiography of M M Kaye, the author of 'The Far Pavilions.' This book begins when Kaye's father takes a new post in China and she is once again forced to leave India. A vividly written and wise look back on a long woman coming into her own in the years before the devastation wrought by the second World War. Illustrated with photographs. Glossary. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-312-265816.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33762More details Price: $75.00 -
THE NEW WAR: The Web of Crime That Threatens America's Security.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which warns how the growing sophistication of global crime organizations is robbing us not only of our money but also threatening our way of life. Index. 210 pp. . ISBN: 0-684818159.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87079More details Price: $18.00 -
AN EXCESS MALE.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2017) First printing, a trade paperback original. SIGNED first edition - The author's first published novel, a "dystopian tale of politics, inequality, marriage, love, and rebellion, set in a near-future China . . .Under the One Child Policy, everyone plotted to have a son. Now 40 million of them can't find wives. By the year 2030, more than twenty-five percent of men in their late thirties will not have a family of their own. "An Excess Male" is the story of one such leftover man's quest for love and family under a State that seeks to glorify its past mistakes and impose order through authoritarian measures, reinvigorated Communist ideals, and social engineering." SIGNED on the title page. Includes a reading group discussion guide. 406 pp. ISBN: 978-1538454060.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71111More details Price: $30.00 -
LEFT IN THE CARE OF.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first suspense novel, set in Hong Kong during the territory's last colonial Christmas before Britain's controls passes to China. A young English boy is found dead while in the care of his Filipina nanny, and a day later a second boy disappears from the same apartment. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-04942.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59898More details Price: $20.00 -
THE PIANO TEACHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, sent in the then British colony of Hong Kong (where she was born) during the Japanese invasion in World War II and in the years just afterwards. 326 pp. ISBN: 978-0670020485.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 65014More details Price: $21.50 -
THE PIANO TEACHER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Viking, (2009). First edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, sent in the then British colony of Hong Kong (where she was born) during the Japanese invasion in World War II and in the years just afterwards. 326 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 64979More details Price: $24.50 -
THE EXPATRIATES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Viking, (2016). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, sent in present day Hong Kong (where she was born) - a world of wealth, where servants and parties are abundant - but fulfillment for the many women who have given up their careers to follow their husbands is harder to find. SIGNED on the title page. 332 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 68358More details Price: $30.00 -
THE EXPATRIATES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Viking, (2016). First edition - The author's second novel, sent in present day Hong Kong (where she was born) - a world of wealth, where servants and parties are abundant - but fulfillment for the many women who have given up their careers to follow their husbands is harder to find. 332 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 67345More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LAST PRINCESS OF MANCHURIA
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel based on the life of Yoshiko Kawashima, cousin of the last emperor of China, commander of an army, and a spy for the Japanese in China. ISBN: 0-688-108342.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 3752More details Price: $18.00