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HOME TO STAY: Asian American Fiction by Women
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Greenfield Center, NY: The Greenfield Review Press, (1990.). SIGNED first edition - An anthology of 32 stories by women of Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, Indian, and Southwest Asian ancestry, and stories by non-Asian women with strong links to the Asian American experience. SIGNED by Chitra Divakaruni at her story "Doors." Other contributors include Maxine Hong Kingston, Jessica Hagedorn, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan, Gish Jen, Diana Davenport, Hisaye Yamamoto, Marie Hara, Fae Myenne Ng, Susan Nunes and many others. Each selection is preceded by a photograph of the author and brief biographical comments. 321 pp. Cover art by Carli Oliver. ISBN: 0-912678-763.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57327More details Price: $30.00 -
HOME TO STAY: Asian American Fiction by Women
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Greenfield Center, NY: The Greenfield Review Press, (1990.). SIGNED first edition - An anthology of 32 stories by women of Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, Indian, and Southwest Asian ancestry, and stories by non-Asian women with strong links to the Asian American experience. SIGNED by Chitra Divakaruni at her story "Doors." Other contributors include Maxine Hong Kingston, Jessica Hagedorn, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan, Gish Jen, Diana Davenport, Hisaye Yamamoto, Marie Hara, Fae Myenne Ng, Susan Nunes and many others. Each selection is preceded by a photograph of the author and brief biographical comments. 321 pp. Cover art by Carli Oliver. ISBN: 0-912678-763.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (minor wear to covers).
Book ID: 57328More details Price: $24.50 -
THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 76347More details Price: $18.50 -
THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61267More details Price: $35.00 -
THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 63660More details Price: $30.00 -
RED IVY, GREEN EARTH MOTHER.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith Publisher, (1990). First edition - The first book to appear in English by this leading Chinese woman writer, who was in the US at the time of the Tiananmen riots, and because she spoke up then against the governement, she wound up remaining in the US. Includes a novella and three stories. Foreword by Amy Tan. Translated from the Chinese By Howard Goldblatt, 146 pp. ISBN: 0-879052929.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79705More details Price: $15.00 -
EYES OF THE DRAGON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Story based on a Chinese folktale. An artist agrees to paint the Dragon King on the wall of a Chinese village to protect the people, but then the magistrate demanded one final touch - that the eyes of the dragon be painted. Illustrated in full color by Caldecott winning artist Ed Lee. Editor's note. Oblong format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-688061567.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some crinkling to the upper edge of several pages, short closed tears to dj)
Book ID: 75877More details Price: $18.50 -
THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (2 corners are slightly bumped)
Book ID: 81595More details Price: $1,000.00 -
THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (boards slightly splayed, as appears to be common with this inexpensively produced book) .
Book ID: 75650More details Price: $375.00 -
CHINESE VERSE.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Lop Quan & Co., 1927. Hardcover first edition - A bilingual collection of poetry with the original Chinese on the left and the English translation by Sui Peng on the right. The foreword notes that the author had been in the United States for almost 6 years at the time of publication. Illustrated with decorations on every page by Edna Francess Edell, although the dancing nudes endpapers seem unrelated to the book itself. 169 pp.
Condition: Very good in light green paper-covered boards with an illustration within a gold frame on the front cover, lettering in black. (a clean, straight copy with minor wear to the edges of the boards)
Book ID: 84695More details Price: $25.00 -
SNAKEHEAD.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages).
Book ID: 81491More details Price: $250.00 -
SNAKEHEAD.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (usual toning to the pages).
Book ID: 81590More details Price: $275.00 -
PIE-BITER.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Design Enterprises of San Francisco. (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Based on the true story of a young boy, brought from China to work on building the trans-continental railroad, who grew from a skinny boy to a strong man by eating lots of pies, and thus earned the nickname Pie-Biter. When work on the railroads was finished, he learned how to run a pack-horse business, and after 15 years as a successful businessman in the Northwest, he finally returned to China INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by McCunn "For.... may you have the strength, ingenuity and humor of Pie-Biter - but not the appetite!" Illustrated by You-Shang Tang using a combination of Chinese and Western art techniques. American Book Award winner 1984. Oval format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-932538096.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards (prev owner's name) in a very good- dustjacket with a gold award sticker on the front cover.
Book ID: 37210More details Price: $30.00 -
GRANTA 39, Spring 1992: THE BODY.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good (crease to front cover, faint stamp on first page.).
Book ID: 47152More details Price: $30.00 -
SCIENCE FICTION FROM CHINA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Praeger, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology of eight stories by six major Chinese science fiction writers, "the first such collection to be published in English. The stories are enriched by China's ancient tradition of fantastic literature as well as that nation's fascination with futuristic science and technology, and they provide illuminating glimpses of Chinese attitudes, values, and daily life. Wu provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of Chinese science fiction together with a chronological bibliography of stories, novels, and related critical works." Includes a foreword by Frederik Pohl. xli, 176 pp. ISBN: 0-275933431.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 83697More details Price: $25.00 -
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 -
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