Author: KINGSTON, MAXINE HONG
Title: Tripmaster Monkey His Fake Book
Description: New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394568311. Illustrated by Barbara Dewilde. Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription on the title page. There is a laid-in errata pageThis book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Kingston was drawn to writing at a young age and won a five-dollar prize from Girl Scout Magazine for an essay she wrote titled "I Am an American." She majored in engineering at The University of California, Berkeley, before switching to English. While she was in Berkeley, she met Earll. In 1962 she married Earll Kingston, an actor, and began a high-school teaching career. Their son, Joseph Lawrence Chung Mei, was born in 1963. From 1965 to 1967, Maxine taught English and mathematics at Sunset High School in Hayward, California. After relocating to Hawaii, her boredom in a lonely hotel 80 miles north of Oahu caused Maxine to begin writing extensively, finally completing and publishing her first book, The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, in 1976. She began teaching English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa that same year. By 1981 she had moved on to teach at Berkeley. " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0394568311 Modern Fiction First Edition Maxine Hong Kingston Chinese Americans Author's First Novel Signed Edition Chinese Myths And Legends
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Title: Tripmaster Monkey His Fake Book
Description: New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394568311. Illustrated by Barbara Dewilde. Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription on the title page. There is a laid-in errata pageThis book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Kingston was drawn to writing at a young age and won a five-dollar prize from Girl Scout Magazine for an essay she wrote titled "I Am an American." She majored in engineering at The University of California, Berkeley, before switching to English. While she was in Berkeley, she met Earll. In 1962 she married Earll Kingston, an actor, and began a high-school teaching career. Their son, Joseph Lawrence Chung Mei, was born in 1963. From 1965 to 1967, Maxine taught English and mathematics at Sunset High School in Hayward, California. After relocating to Hawaii, her boredom in a lonely hotel 80 miles north of Oahu caused Maxine to begin writing extensively, finally completing and publishing her first book, The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, in 1976. She began teaching English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa that same year. By 1981 she had moved on to teach at Berkeley. " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0394568311 Modern Fiction First Edition Maxine Hong Kingston Chinese Americans Author's First Novel Signed Edition Chinese Myths And Legends
Price: US$ 30.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 45083
- Book number: 45083
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