By Maxine Hong Kingston
London   Allen Lane
9" by 5.5" [8], 209pp.
A charming volume of autobiographical content mixed with Chinese folktale by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston, the first UK edition.
By Maxine Hong Kingston

1977 The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts

London   Allen Lane
9" by 5.5" [8], 209pp.
A charming volume of autobiographical content mixed with Chinese folktale by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston, the first UK edition.
£30.00
: 0.5kgs / : 790A31

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Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

A fascinating volume, exploring the author's memoirs mixed with some Chinese folktales, in which Kingston provides her audience with a cultural, familiar, and personal context needed to understand her position as a first-generation Chinese-American Woman. Winner of the National Books Circle Awards and one of Time magazine's top non fiction books in the 1970s.

The first UK Edition, the true first English edition was published in 1976.

With the price-clipped dust wrapper. 

Condition

In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Inscribed by a previous owner to the front pastedown, obscured in black ink. The dust wrapper is excellent with only minor shelf wear; price-clipped. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean.

Near Fine

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