The Grass Roof by Kang, Younghill - 1934

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Hardcover. 367p., very good hardcover in a tattered dust jacket. The Korean American author's account of his Korean childhood and his move to America. Describes the fall of Korea to Japanese rule, the deposition of its royal family and the reaction of Korean intellectuals. At the end the protagonist escapes Korea on a ship headed for the United States.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1975. First Edition THUS. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.First edition THUS, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Minor wear to covers and spine. The text block is clean and free of staining. Previous owner's inscription on main title page. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Book. Good. Hardcover. Ex-library with typical library markings, stickers and tape.

Chicago: Follett, 1966. 377pp. Pale green cloth boards, dark green titles on spine. Crisp copy that appears virtually unread. The number 1 and a dash after it appear in pencil on FFEP, but book is otherwise clean and unmarked. Slight edgewear to dust jacket, but it shows original $4.95 price on front flap. Kang's debut novel, "captures the twilight of the Korean kingdom in the first two decades of the twentieth century, as Japan colonizes the peninsula. Its narrator, Chungpa Han, is a precocious child whose thirst for education takes him from his secluded home village to Seoul, three hundred miles away; into the heart of Japan; and finally to America, where East Goes West picks up on the pilgrim’s progress," Ed Park writes in the New York Review of Books. Esther Kim notes that, "believed only literature told the whole truth, and that it was the most permanent of the arts," and that it brought him, "dizzying international success." Kang became great friends with… Read More

New York 1948, Scribner. Green cloth, very clean,367p.,tran- slations done for the first time into English by a Korean- -American, clean and solid copy, the First Korean-American novel. * * SECOND EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . THE FIRST KOREAN-AMERICAN NOVEL . . . NOTICED & PRAISED BY AUTHORS REBECCA WEST & H.G. WELLS, . * This is the Korean "Huckleberry Finn" and covers his story as a youth, the seizure of his family's land by the Japanese and how he ran away to Seoul, a journey on foot. An autobiography. . How he went to 'hated Japan,' and how he finally made his way to America. . It is also highly critical of Japan's takeover of Korea, Manchuria and East Asia in the 1930's. . *** WHO WAS YOUNGHILL KANG [1898-1972]: . He was born in Korea in 1903, "in an isolated grass-roofed village," Kang was educated in Japan, returned to Korea to teach in a missionary school, and was jailed for a year for joining a revolt against Japanese domination. then he came… Read More

Slight toning, else content appears as unread and unblemished with near fine orange decorated, cloth covered boards displaying minimal surface/edge wear. Actual Pic Not Available. Many of my books are from the 19th Century. Books were not written in at that time, instead an index card with info. Am enclosing the one found in this book for you. Enjoy. Kang at first wrote in Korean and Japanese, switching to English only in 1928 and under the tutelage of his American wife, Frances Keeley.[5] He worked as an editor for the Encyclopedia Britannica and taught at New York University, where his colleague Thomas Wolfe read the opening chapters of his novel The Grass Roof and recommended it to Scribner's publishing house.[5] The book was admired by such other authors as Rebecca West and H. G. Wells, and was considered for a movie adaptation by Hollywood.[6] The Grass Roof was well received in its time, since it seemed to confirm American disdain for Korea. East Goes West,… Read More

New York / London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Missing. Signed by Author. Signed First Edition. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931; same date on title and copyright pages, no later printings indicated (lacks an 'A' on copyright page, so may be a second printing); viii, 367pp. Signed and inscribed by Younghill Kang on front end page ('Sincerely yours, [signature]'). Hardcover in G/G- condition, missing the dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; orange cloth boards worn at corners, lightly frayed at spine ends; light dust smudging to boards, faint damp-stain on rear board; title plate on spine toned and rubbed, text remains legible; interior text very good throughout; moderate amount of foxing to edges of page block. No dust jacket. Kang's first novel, based on the author's own life in Japanese-occupied Korea and his decision to flee to the West. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Signed by Younghill Kang on the front free endpaper in black ink. viii, 367 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth, stamped in dark green. Later printing of the first edition. Near Fine with a little foxing to fore edge, in a Good+ dust jacket , chipped at extremities (the largest chip being at the foot), small chip in spine interior, worn along edges, price-clipped with new price ($3.50) stamped on front flap. Rare signed. The first Korean American novel, a commercial and literary success praised by such authors as H.G. Wells and Rebecca West.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. Signed by Younghill Kang on the front free endpaper in black ink, inscribed to poet Jean Starr Untermeyer, dated November 29, 1950. Both were residents at Yaddo artist's colony; perhaps that's where they met. viii, 367 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth, stamped in dark green. Later printing of the first edition. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket, spine worn at ends and a little darkened, front flap clipped with new price stamped ($3.50). Rare signed. The first Korean American novel, a commercial and literary success praised by such authors as H.G. Wells and Rebecca West.

New York: Morrow Junior Books., 1995. First edition.. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Stephen T. Johnson. Illustrated by Stephen T. Johnson. New York: Morrow Junior Books, (1995). First edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket. faint rumpling to the jacket, otherwise near fine. ISBN: 0688134645

Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.

First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.

New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478

Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.

Doubleday & Co., 1949. Used-very good. Hard Bound

The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.

The Seven Dials Mystery (Midnight Mysteries) 1944 Books, Inc. Stated 1st. Pr. Thus) RARE IN THIS EDITION. By Agatha Christie. USED. Good-/ No DJ. Black boards, gold titling on spine. Light pop bottle rings mar front board. Original copyright by Dodd, Mead 1929. Loose last gather has been neatly taped in. A clean copy. Summary: "When Gerald Wade died, apparently from an overdose of sleeping draught seven clocks appeared on the mantelpiece. Who put them there and had they any connection with the night club in Seven Dials? This is the mystery that Bill Eversleigh and Bundle and two other young people set out to investigate...".