Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING] by Namu, Yang Erche, and Mathieu, Christine - 2003

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by author Mathieu on the title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Slight edgewear to dust jacket. Minor shelfwear to bottoms of boards. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Audience: General/trade. Previous owner's name and phone number on first free endpaper. Mathieu is the author of 'A History and Anthropological Study of the Ancient Kingdoms of the Sino-Tibetan Borderland-Naxi and Mosuo'. Namu, a Masuo, is now a famous singer. The Masuo are a Chinese people from the remote area near Nepal with matrilineal customs. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.