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  • MISCHIEF MAKERS. by Jones, Nettie.
    Jones, Nettie.
    MISCHIEF MAKERS.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Vintage Books, (1991). SIGNED - Jone's second published book (and last, so far), the story of two generations of mixed race women set in the years from 1920-1950. The NY Times noted that her "women are mischievous - sometimes willfully and sometimes despite themselves - because they are never entirely what they seem. Raphael de Baptiste is a tall, stunningly beautiful young woman. The visible traces of her African and American Indian heritage have disappered so thoroughly that her mother calls her Peaches, for her complexion. . . In her new life, people assume Raphael is white, and she never disagrees. Ms. Jones does not examine or judge this change; she presents it as an easy attitude…

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    New York: Vintage Books, (1991). SIGNED - Jone's second published book (and last, so far), the story of two generations of mixed race women set in the years from 1920-1950. The NY Times noted that her "women are mischievous - sometimes willfully and sometimes despite themselves - because they are never entirely what they seem. Raphael de Baptiste is a tall, stunningly beautiful young woman. The visible traces of her African and American Indian heritage have disappered so thoroughly that her mother calls her Peaches, for her complexion. . . In her new life, people assume Raphael is white, and she never disagrees. Ms. Jones does not examine or judge this change; she presents it as an easy attitude Raphael slides into.. . When she falls love with a Chippewa Indian, one who owns a lot of land, she dies in child birth before she has a chance to tell her husband and children about her hybrid ancestry. Her daughters pay a severe price for Raphael's mischief... Ms. Jones elicits enormous sympathy for her characters. She has the daring to create people who are intriguing and intricate, even when they are not convincing." INSCRIBED inside the front cover and dated in 1995. 163 pp. ISBN: 0-67972785x.

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    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 89786
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  • Kim, Elizabeth.
    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: 37915
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  • A PLACE APART. by Lytton, David.
    Lytton, David.
    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: 61607
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  • Njeri, Itabari.
    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: 18641
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  • LET THE DEAD LIE. by Nunn, Malla.
    Nunn, Malla.
    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: 60162
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