Tripmaster Monkey
by Kingston, Maxine Hong
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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by Kingston, Maxine Hong
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- Apr 15, 1989
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Slight foxing on the foredge else fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Kingston, utilizing the printed title, to author Nicholas Delbanco: "Hi Nick, Happy [printed: Tripmaster Monkey]! Maxine Kingston 2000." Laid in is Kingston's business card, and the printed text of Delbanco's introduction of her at a reading.… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Signed and dated by the author on the title page, with a brief inscription to another novelist; the date is April 5, 1989. Clean, bright pages except for a brush of foxing along the head edges; the hard cover shows a… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Board edges slightly discolored. 1989 Hard Cover. 340 pp. 8vo. "Young Chinese American Wittman Ah Sing, a recent Berkley graduate and student of the sixties, is an absolutely extraordinary fictional creation.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tripmaster Monkey (SIGNED)
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Jun 10, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. SOFTCOVER. Signed by the author, Maxine Hong Kingston, directly to the full title page. Prior owner name on the first front end page, (FFEP). First edition/first printing copy with number line "10987654321" and "First Vintage Books Edition" printed on the copyright page. Some cover wear and page toning as would be normal… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tripmaster Monkey : His Fake Book
by Kingston, Maxine Hong
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1989. U6 - In her first novel after her widely acclaimed autobiographical, Chinamen and The Woman Warrior, both winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award. In an interview Kingston revealed, "Tripmas ter Monkey is a fake book.. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
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Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Author's first novel after her a wide-ranging tale of a Chinese-American's struggle to write the great Chinese-American novel. NF (light foxing to top edge) in a fine jacket, this is a first printing.
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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
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Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
by KINGSTON, Maxine Hong
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- 1989
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with some spotting on top page fine edges and some light smudge marks on top and bottom cover edges in near fine dustwrapper. Author's first work of fiction. Item Price
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