The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Toronto , Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
First edition, first printing with 1-10 number line. In good condition, tanning at page ends, small stain at side edge, in very good first edition dust jacket with $18.95 price intact on flap. Label signed by Amy Tan affixed to half title page;
Synopsis
The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families who start a club known as "the Joy Luck Club," playing the Chinese game of Mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Postliterate (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3612
- Title
- The Joy Luck Club
- Author
- Amy Tan
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
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