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  • FIVE STAR BILLIONAIRE. by Aw, Tash.
    Aw, Tash.
    FIVE STAR BILLIONAIRE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Spiegel & Grau, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's third novel, the stories of young Chinese men and women who bring their hopes and dreams to Shanghai, the shining symbol of "the New China." SIGNED on the title page. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. 379 pp. ISBN: 978-0812994346.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 63505
    Keywords: Asian and Asian American, booker longlist, china, shanghai
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  • THE MASTER OF RAIN. by Bradby, Tom.
    Bradby, Tom.
    THE MASTER OF RAIN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (2002) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's highly praised first crime novel, set in 1926 Shanghai. 452 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-385-503970.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant)

    Book ID: 61140
    Keywords: emigrees, first novel, Mysteries: historical, shanghai
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  • THE MASTER OF RAIN. by Bradby, Tom.
    Bradby, Tom.
    THE MASTER OF RAIN.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Doubleday, (2002). First edition - The author's highly praised first crime novel, set in 1926 Shanghai, a "city glistening with decadence and ripe with corruption," 437 pp. ISBN: .

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 79074
    Keywords: arc, emigrees, first novel, Mysteries: historical, shanghai, uncorrected proof
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  • Kaye, M.M. (Mary Margaret.)
    ENCHANTED EVENING: Volume III of the Autobiography of M. M. Kaye.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third volume in the autobiography of M M Kaye, the author of 'The Far Pavilions.' This book begins when Kaye's father takes a new post in China and she is once again forced to leave India. A vividly written and wise look back on a long woman coming into her own in the years before the devastation wrought by the second World War. Illustrated with photographs. Glossary. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-312-265816.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 33762
    Keywords: china, india, Literary biographies, shanghai
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  • A MEMOIR OF MY DAYS IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA by Pereira, Percival E (1926+-2002)
    Pereira, Percival E (1926+-2002)
    A MEMOIR OF MY DAYS IN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

    Edition: First printing.

    By the author, (1996). SIGNED first edition - Autobiography of a man born in 1926 into a Portuguese family in Shanghai and who lived there with his family during World War II - leaving in 1946 for the United States, where he attended a school of pharmacy in Philadelphia, relocated to South Dakota, enlisted in the military during the Korean War and retired as a Colonel. Written to tell his grandchildren of the 20 years in Shanghai and the fifty years that followed in the United States. He was also very involved with the Boy Scouts so the chronology of special events in his life includes both attending World Jamboree and his promotions in the military. Illustrated with many…

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    By the author, (1996). SIGNED first edition - Autobiography of a man born in 1926 into a Portuguese family in Shanghai and who lived there with his family during World War II - leaving in 1946 for the United States, where he attended a school of pharmacy in Philadelphia, relocated to South Dakota, enlisted in the military during the Korean War and retired as a Colonel. Written to tell his grandchildren of the 20 years in Shanghai and the fifty years that followed in the United States. He was also very involved with the Boy Scouts so the chronology of special events in his life includes both attending World Jamboree and his promotions in the military. Illustrated with many photographs. INSCRIBED inside the front cover and dated in 1996. Very uncommon - WorldCat has a listing, but does not show any holdings. 114 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 85516
    Keywords: Biography, autobiography, memoirs, boy scouts, immigrants, knights of columbus, korean war, new jersey, shanghai, south dakota, wisconsin
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