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RUINED TIME: The 1950s and the Beat.
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88693More details Price: $35.00 -
THE FOREIGN STUDENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1998). Hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel by this award-winning writer, the "story of the burgeoning love affair between a young Korean man scarred by war and the deeply troubled daughter of a wealthy Southern American family. In 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by some dark episode in her past. Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are irrevocably drawn together." Winner of the Asian-American Literary Award for Fiction. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-06019149X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80120More details Price: $25.00 -
THE POST-WAR DREAM.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 77956More details Price: $15.00 -
MEMORIES OF MY GHOST BROTHER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, one which draws on his own background as the son of a German-American soldier and a Korean woman the soldier met when he was stationed in Korea - a story of a young Amerasian in Korea torn between two worlds. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-525-941754.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 55666More details Price: $18.00 -
THE RETURN OF PRIVATE FISCHER.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Dixon, CA: Martin Pearl Publishing, (2011). SIGNED first edition - The author's second novel, part true, part fiction, based on the story of his brother Jack Fischer who was captured during the Korean War and sent into the Soviet gulags and of his teenage girlfriend who,even years later, never gave up searching for him. SIGNED on the title page. Double page map. 397 pp. plus a photograph. ISBN: 9780981482279.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58672More details Price: $18.50 -
WAR TRASH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1951-1953 during the Korean War, this is the story of a Chinese Army officer held as a POW by the American forces. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner award, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 352 pp. ISBN: 9780375422768.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 59135More details Price: $75.00 -
DEADLY PURPOSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: M. S. Mill Co. & William Morrow & Co, 1958. dj. Hardcover first edition - A Korean War veteran obsessed with the idea of killing a cowardly sergeant travels to where he is living in a town on the coast of California, only to find someone has beaten him to the job - but he is the prime suspect. 224 pp.
Condition: Very good in bright blue cloth in a rubbed and worn dust jacket (original price of $2.95 still present)
Book ID: 68697More details Price: $16.50 -
DEADLY PURPOSE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: M. S. Mill Co. & William Morrow & Co, 1958. Hardcover first edition - A Korean War veteran obsessed with the idea of killing a cowardly sergeant travels to where he is living in a town on the coast of California, only to find someone has beaten him to the job - but he is the prime suspect. 224 pp.
Condition: Good overall in bright blue cloth (a few library stamps), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 68698More details Price: $12.50 -
THE SNOWY ROAD & OTHER STORIES: An Anthology of Korean Fiction.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
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.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (name on first page).
Book ID: 75665More details Price: $15.00 -
YO-HO AND KIM.
Edition: First edition.
Los Angeles: Lawerence Press, (1965.). Hardcover first edition - Beginning reader with stories of two orphaned Korean boys who are befriended by Sergeant Adams and the American soldiers of Troop 333. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Daniel Goozee. Includes a glossary of Korean words, and a list of vocabulary introduced in this book. First in a series. 58 pp.
Condition: Very good in sturdy reinforced, illustrated orange cloth covers.
Book ID: 43879More details Price: $12.50 -
THE ERIC MORGAN STORY.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Nashville, TN: Winston -Derek Publishers, (1992.). First edition - A somewhat fictionalized account of a young black man, raised by his adoptive white grandmother in the Midwest during the 1930's in ignorance of his black culture, and who - in attempt to avoid the conflict between his upbringing and his racial identity - joined the Navy and wound up in Korea as one of 15 men handpicked for a dangerous mission. 130 pp. plus epilogue. ISBN: 1555234135.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (book store stamp.)
Book ID: 48736More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SURRENDERED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2010. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel, one inspired by his father's stories of attempting to flee the war in Korea - but Lee states it is "is not so much a war novel as it is a story concerned with the effects of mass conflict on the human psyche and spirit, the private odysseys that those who have experienced conflict must endure." INSCRIBED on the title page. 469 pp. ISBN: 978-1594489761.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78816More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SURRENDERED.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Riverhead Books, 2010. First edition - The author's fourth novel, one inspired by his father's stories of attempting to flee the war in Korea - but Lee states it is "is not so much a war novel as it is a story concerned with the effects of mass conflict on the human psyche and spirit, the private odysseys that those who have experienced conflict must endure." 467 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps. .
Book ID: 78817More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SURRENDERED.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2010. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's fourth bookl, a novel inspired by his father's stories of attempting to flee the war in Korea - but Lee states it is "is not so much a war novel as it is a story concerned with the effects of mass conflict on the human psyche and spirit, the private odysseys that those who have experienced conflict must endure." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 469 pp. ISBN: 978-1594489761.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82878More details Price: $35.00 -
KOREA: Where the American Century Began.
Edition: First printing.
London: Oneworld Publications, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In late 1950, the US-led invasion of North Korea failed, and for the next three years ,the United States relentlessly bombed the Norths cities, towns and villages. Pyongyang has been determined to develop a credible nuclear deterrent ever since. The Korean War was the first of Americas unsuccessful military interventions post-World War II and its first modern conflict with China. It established the pattern for the next sixty years and marked the true beginning of the American century - opening the door to ever-increasing defense expenditure." Notes, sources, documents, index. xxi, 346 pp. ISBN: 978-1786074737.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86244More details Price: $18.50 -
A MEMOIR OF MY DAYS IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85516More details Price: $40.00 -
BURNING THE DAYS: Recollection.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful memoir, in which "one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years. [This book] captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most evocative pages ever written about flying, Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, scenes that are balanced by haunting pages of love and a young man's passion for women." Index. x, 365 pp. ISBN: 0-375500154.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79896More details Price: $25.00 -
THE HUNTERS.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: Vintage Books, (1999.). His first novel, originally published in 1959, described as 'the story of a fighter pilot by a fighter pilot' and a classic of aviation literature. Set during the Korean War, basis for the movie of the same name. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-375-703926.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58768More details Price: $11.50 -
THE BROKEN PLACE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: New American Library - NAL, (1968.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon first novel by the author of the Pulitzer prize-winning 'The Killer Angels.' In this book, the hero returns from Korea to the boxing ring and travels to the Middle East in search of inner peace - experiences which parallel those of Shaara. 239 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (wear to ends of spine, some short tears to dj, original price of 5.50 still present.).
Book ID: 50997More details Price: $75.00 -
STEELWORK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - "Like a series of snapshops, this novel presents a picture of a particular Brooklyn neighborhood between the years 1935 and 1951, covering the Depression, World War II, the beginnings of the Cold War, and the Korean War." 177 pp. ISBN: 0-394447107.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (usual sunning to the spine of the dj)
Book ID: 74620More details Price: $24.50 -
THE FLIGHT OF JESSE LEROY BROWN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Avon, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of America's first black Naval aviator, from his childhood in a poor but loving family in segregated Mississippi to his triumph over racism in his determination to become a Navy pilot and to his death in North Korea. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xiii, 300 pp. Business card of actor Garon Grigsby affixed to front endpaper. ISBN: 0-380976897.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 90482More details Price: $40.00 -
SNOW HUNTERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2013). First edition - The first novel by this writer whose first book, a collection of short stories, won several awards. This is a spare and beautifully written account of a Korean, who after two years as a prisoner-of-war refused repatriation to the North, and instead accepted a chance to go to Brazil, where he was placed in a job working for a Japanese tailor. 194 pp.
Condition: Fine in yellow illustrated wrappers with self flaps. Letter from publisher bound in. .
Book ID: 72628More details Price: $20.00