CALIFORNIA CHILDHOOD: Recollections and Stories of the Golden State.
by [Anthology, signed] Soto, Gary, editor, signed; Maxine Hong Kingston, signed
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
- ISBN 10
- 0887390579
- ISBN 13
- 9780887390579
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley, CA:: Creative Arts Book Co.,, 1988.. SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A collection of 32 prose pieces about growing up in California now long gone; the authors include Devorah Majors, James D. Houston, Genny Lim,, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gary Soto, M. F. K. Fisher, Mary Helen Ponce, Gerald Haslam, Hisaye Yamamote, Richard Dokey, Domenic Stansberry, Soto himself and many others. SIGNED by TWO authors: INSCRIBED on the title page by Gary Soto and SIGNED by Maxine Hong Kingston at her story "The Quiet Girl". 255 pp plus notes on the contributors.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47329
- Title
- CALIFORNIA CHILDHOOD: Recollections and Stories of the Golden State.
- Author
- [Anthology, signed] Soto, Gary, editor, signed; Maxine Hong Kingston, signed
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0887390579
- ISBN 13
- 9780887390579
- Publisher
- Creative Arts Book Co.,
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, CA:
- Date Published
- 1988.
- Keywords
- autobiography, central valley, stockton, women, chinese american,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
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