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Chinamen
by Maxine Hong Kingston
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good, slight cant to spine, light dust soiling to top of text block./Very Good jacket, light soiling to front panel, minor handling and shelving wear to extremities
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. 8vo, quarter bound in grey paper with gilt lettering to red cloth spine and decorative red kanji to front boards in illustrated jacket, 310 pp. Very Good, slight cant to spine, light dust soiling to top of text block./Very Good jacket, light soiling to front panel, minor handling and shelving wear to extremities. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Signed by author on title page: "To Aldon with Aloha, Maxine Kingston 5/10/89
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 917
- Title
- Chinamen
- Author
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Paul Bacon
- Format/Binding
- 8vo, quarter bound in grey paper with gilt lettering to red cloth spine and decorative red kanji to front boards in illustrated
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, slight cant to spine, light dust soiling to top of text block.
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good jacket, light soiling to front panel, minor handling and shelving wear to extremities
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- maxine kingston, chinese american fiction, immigrant fiction, immigrant literature
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About the Seller
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- First Edition
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