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MISCHIEF MAKERS.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89786More details Price: $40.00 -
TEN THOUSAND SORROWS: The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - As a young child she witnessed the murder of her mother by her grandfather and uncle because she had laid with an American soldier and had, not just a bastard, but
but a honhyol--a mixed-race child, considered worth less than nothing, and brought dishonor on the family. Left at a Christian orphanage in postwar Seoul , adopted by a childless Fundamentalist pastor and his wife but constantly reminded that she wasn't good enough, she was married to an abusive and controlling man, and only after the birth of her daughter, was she then finally was able to save herself and her daughter. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-385496338.Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37915More details Price: $18.00 -
A PLACE APART.
Edition: First printing.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - South African author's second novel, the story of a young Cape Coloured, who is light enough to pass for white, but still finds himself crushed between conflicting traditions. 300 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (sticker of the Christopher Mann, Ltd, agency on front endpaper, corners slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 61607More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LAST PLANTATION: Color, Conflict, and Identity: Reflections of a New World Black
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997 dj. Hardcover first edition - An examinationof conflicts within the African American community and between blacks and Asians. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-395-771919.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (remainder dot.)
Book ID: 18641More details Price: $18.00 -
LET THE DEAD LIE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original,
New York: Washington Square Press, (2010). First edition - Second crime novel featuring now ex-Detective Emmanuel Cooper, set during apartheid in 1953 in the dangerous South African underworld, where Cooper (who was reclassified from white to mixed race) is working in undercover surveillance on the Durban docks. Includes Q & A with author, 382 pp. ISBN: 97814165-86227.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (some spotting to the top edge of the textblock).
Book ID: 60162More details Price: $11.50