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The Kitchen God's Wife (Signed 1st Printing)
by Amy Tan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0399135782
- ISBN 13
- 9780399135781
- Seller
-
LA QUINTA, California, United States
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About This Item
U.S.A.: Putnam Pub Group, 1991. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A near fine copy in an unclipped and near fine dustjacket. This copy is signed without any inscription by the author on the title page. Light edgewear to the upper edges or would be fine. Previous owner name (small--one word) to the front endpaper. The dustjacket has very light rubbing to the panels or would also be fine. A very nice copy protected in a new acrylic archival jacket cover. From the author of "The Joy Luck Club".
Synopsis
"Riveting...the book rings with distinctive voices, and it's laden with those details that make readers feel that they've gained a toehold on another world." -USA TodayWinnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events tha led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949.
Reviews
On Mar 8 2007, Michael341 said:
it's beautiful, you won't regret spending your money in buying this book. you will learn many things about chinese culture.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Classic First Editions
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- cfe13408
- Title
- The Kitchen God's Wife (Signed 1st Printing)
- Author
- Amy Tan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0399135782
- ISBN 13
- 9780399135781
- Publisher
- Putnam Pub Group
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- FICTION
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Classic First Editions
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LA QUINTA, California
About Classic First Editions
A large collection of modern first editions--most signed--as well as a large assortment of early Western fiction, Limited Edition Club, History and Biography.
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- New
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- Fine
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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