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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (SIGNED)
by Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394568311
- ISBN 13
- 9780394568317
- Seller
-
Monkton, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
HARDCOVER. Hand Signed and Inscribed by the author, Maxine Hong Kingston, on a personal Maxine Hong Kingston Tripmaster Monkey bookplate in her earlier flourish style signature. She wrote: "To Helen, with best wishes, Maxine (Hong in Chinese character) Kingston". FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING copy. Brand New condition book with a flawless first state Dust Jacket with "4/89" on the front lower flap. First Edition/First Printing copy with "First Edition" printed on the copyright page. NOT Remaindered. NOT owner Inscribed, NOT Ex-library, NOT Book Club Edition, NOT Price clipped ($19.95). Looks like it was never read and only opened to Sign. **Protected by a removable plastic cover**. NOT signed on a PUBLISHER tipped-in page, laid-in page, half-title page, or first front end page. (Note: Publishers are now attempting to pass off books as "Signed" by inserting author-signed sheets at the time of printing. Dust jacket is in brand new condition. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED by Maxine Hong Kingston. No other inscriptions; full signature only. Publication date: April 15, 1989. No foxing on the edges. Interior pages are white, clean, and unmarked. The boards are tight. No names, writing, underlining, highlighting, creases, prior owner inscriptions, bookplates, etc. Covered boards in 1/4 black and gold cloth with gold lettering on the spine, blind embossed black 'trickster' character on the front panel. In a beautiful pictorial dustwrapper. Title: Tripmaster Monkey - His Fake Book: A Novel, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, NY, [1989], 1989, 344pp., 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall, ISBN: 0394568311. FREE USPS tracking and book shipped in a box. I may have multiple copies of this book for sale. If I do, all were signed the same day, at the same signing event, at the same time, using the same pen by the author. I use only one listing photo of the signed book page for all the listings, and each signature page, naturally, maybe slightly different. BS000206.
Synopsis
Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who operated a gambling house in the 1940s, when Maxine was born, and then a laundry where Kingston and her brothers and sisters toiled long hours. Kingston graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1962 from the University of California at Berkeley, and, in the same year, married actor Earll Kingston, whom she had met in an English course. The couple has one son, Joseph, who was born in 1963. They were active in antiwar activities in Berkeley, but in 1967 the Kingstons headed for Japan to escape the increasing violence and drugs of the antiwar movement. They settled instead in Hawai‘i, where Kingston took various teaching posts. They returned to California seventeen years later, and Kingston resumed teaching writing at the University of California, Berkeley. While in Hawai‘i, Kingston wrote her first two books. The Woman Warrior , her first book, was published in 1976 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award, making her a literary celebrity at age thirty-six. Her second book, China Men , earned the National Book Award. Still today, both books are widely taught in literature and other classes. Kingston has earned additional awards, including the PEN West Award for Fiction for Tripmaster Monkey , the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and the National Humanities Medal, which was conferred by President Clinton, as well as the title “Living Treasure of Hawai‘i” bestowed by a Honolulu Buddhist church. Her most recent books include a collection of essays, Hawai ‘ i One Summer , and latest novel, The Fifth Book of Peace . Kingston is currently Senior Lecturer Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Bookseller
- Charm City Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BS000206
- Title
- Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (SIGNED)
- Author
- Kingston, Maxine Hong
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover w/ Dust Jacket in an Acid-Free Cover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394568311
- ISBN 13
- 9780394568317
- Publisher
- Knopf (April 15, 1989)
- Place of Publication
- UNITED STATES
- Date Published
- Apr 15, 1989
- Pages
- 340
- Keywords
- Asian American Literature & Fiction, Short Stories Anthologies, Literary Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- SIGNED BOOKS;
Terms of Sale
Charm City Books
100% Refund Policy if not completely satisfied, minus postal shipping expense. I ship worldwide except for a few exceptions. Please inquire.
About the Seller
Charm City Books
Biblio member since 2004
Monkton, Maryland
About Charm City Books
I sell mostly Modern First Editions. Most of my inventory is Hand Signed First Edition/First Printing Hardcovers. I also carry a collection of Brand New & Like New, Signed and Unsigned Franklin Library & Easton Press Books. I will accept offers on any book I have. If your offer is accepted, you are committed to buy. I will then reduce the price of the item ON THIS SITE so you can purchase the item or book on this site using their check-out...
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