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VOLCANO: A Memoir of Hawai'i.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fourth generation Japanese-American, this is Hongo's account of his return to the tiny town of Volcano in Hawaii, where he was born and of his discovery of the past of his family. SIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-394-571673.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44308More details Price: $35.00 -
THE PEARL DIVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery by this award-winning author, set in Washington DC, and featuring antique dealer and sometimes sleuth, Rei Shimura. SIGNED on the title page. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6212960.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50723More details Price: $30.00 -
THE FLOWER MASTER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third mystery featuring a savy young Japanese American woman, an antique dealer and sometimes sleuth, Rei Shimura, set in modern Tokyo. SIGNED on the title page. This is the first titile in the series to be published in hardcover. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6212960.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 61948More details Price: $28.50 -
GIRL IN A BOX.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Mystery featuring a savy young Japanese American woman, an antique dealer and sometimes sleuth, Rei Shimura, set in modern Tokyo. "Chronically underemployed" she has taken on an assignment to go undercover in a Tokyo department store. SIGNED on the title page. 296 pp. ISBN: 978-0060765149.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64353More details Price: $24.50 -
THE PEARL DIVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery by this award-winning author, set in Washington DC, and featuring antique dealer and sometimes sleuth, Rei Shimura. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-06-6212960.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 69462More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BRIDE'S KIMONO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery by this award-winning author, set mostly in Washington DC, and featuring antique dealer and sometimes sleuth, Rei Shimura, who has brought a priceless kimono from Japan for an exhibition. SIGNED on the title page. 310pp. ISBN: 0-06-0199334.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77680More details Price: $30.00 -
THE FLOATING GIRL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth mystery in this award-winning series featuring a savy young Japanese American woman, an antique dealer and sometimes sleuth, Rei Shimura, set in modern Tokyo. SIGNED on the title page. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0192291.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78317More details Price: $30.00 -
SHIMURA TROUBLE: A Rei Shimura Mystery.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Sutton, UK: Severn House, (2008) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A mystery in this award-winning series featuring a savy young Japanese American woman, an antique dealer and sometimes sleuth, Rei Shimura, who is helping her father recover from a stroke, when they are invited to visit the Hawaiian branch of their family. Once there Shimura is enlisted in the attempt to regain land they believe was stolen from them during World War II . SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 978-0727866011.
Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings, and overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 87568More details Price: $28.50 -
AFTER WE LOST OUR WAY.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Dutton, 1989. SIGNED first edition - Author's first collection of poetry, a title in the National Poetry Series selected by Daniel Stern who said 'what I admire most are the indignation, the passion, the agony - all realized and, at the same time, overcome by his lovely music.' Also praise from Amy Clampitt, Garrett Hongo, and others. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. 81 pp. ISBN: 0-525-484833.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers. Uncommon.
Book ID: 75496More details Price: $40.00 -
THE COLUMBIA DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE ASIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Columbia University Press, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes original source documents from the first Naturalization Act in 1790 that banned nonwhite immigrants from citizenship through 2001 with commentary placing each in context. Index 590 pp. ISBN: 0-231110308.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (a new copy but with some sunning to the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 63349More details Price: $25.00 -
ALL OVER CREATION.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 38080More details Price: $25.00 -
ALL OVER CREATION.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 48740More details Price: $30.00 -
A BRIDGE BETWEEN US.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, the stories of four Japanese women, each from a different generation, who live together in a large house in San Francisco. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-385-476787.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine and unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 51607More details Price: $12.50 -
THE INVISIBLE THREAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Julian Messner / Simon & Schuster, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's account of growing up in California in the 1930s as a 2nd generation Japanese-American and her family's internment in a Utah concentration camp during WWII. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-671741640.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 63425More details Price: $12.50 -
REBEL WITHOUT A CLUE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, 1989. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED on title page "For ... Thank you for bringing this relic into the light." Author's first book, a coming-of-age novel by a young 4th generation Japanese American worman, who dropped out as a teenager to become a writer. ISBN: 0-517-571706.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (rem line, slight bumping to upper edge.)
Book ID: 13348More details Price: $35.00 -
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
