signed first edition Paste paper over boards, split-board binding with exposed sewing over tapes
1987 · San Francisco, CA
by Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
San Francisco, CA: Meadow Press, 1987.
4to. 12 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches. [xii], 52, [8] pp. Half-title, folding color woodcut frontispiece opens to 2 1/2 panels is 1 of 4 color woodcut each with its own tissue guard, the text is printed in red and black inks with red initials; text clean, unmarked. Paste paper over boards, split-board binding with exposed sewing over tapes, Gutenberg Laid Endsheets, slip-case covered in red cloth over flexible boards; binding square and tight, some light soiling to slip-case, else fine. SIGNED by the author, the illustrator and the printer on the colophon. GIL921-023. Fine.
LIMITED EDITION, this is number 62 of 75 deluxe copies of a total edition of 150 copies. Printed by Leigh McLellan with partial funding by a Small Press Assistance Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, using Times New Roman types on Korean Kozo paper, little page lettering and text initials drawn by John Prestianni, binding designed by Betty Lou Chaika, Klaus-Ullrich Roetzscher case-bound the edition and made the slipcases. Maxine Hong Kingston is an American novelist and professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. She has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese Americans. Among her many awards, Ms. Kingston has won the 1997 National Humanities medal and in 2014, the 2013 National Medal of the Arts. This book contains eleven pieces that previously appeared in The New York Times in 1978, except "A Sea Worry," which appeared in a weekly column entitled "hers," published here with the permission of The New York Times and Alfred A. Knopf. The text is about an adventure that took place in Hawai'i twenty years prior to publication; the distance of time reflects both the facts that the original writing often took place years prior, and the author's understanding of events with hindsight. A beautiful, and colorful, book.
42 copies OCLC. (Inventory #: GIL921-023)
4to. 12 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches. [xii], 52, [8] pp. Half-title, folding color woodcut frontispiece opens to 2 1/2 panels is 1 of 4 color woodcut each with its own tissue guard, the text is printed in red and black inks with red initials; text clean, unmarked. Paste paper over boards, split-board binding with exposed sewing over tapes, Gutenberg Laid Endsheets, slip-case covered in red cloth over flexible boards; binding square and tight, some light soiling to slip-case, else fine. SIGNED by the author, the illustrator and the printer on the colophon. GIL921-023. Fine.
LIMITED EDITION, this is number 62 of 75 deluxe copies of a total edition of 150 copies. Printed by Leigh McLellan with partial funding by a Small Press Assistance Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, using Times New Roman types on Korean Kozo paper, little page lettering and text initials drawn by John Prestianni, binding designed by Betty Lou Chaika, Klaus-Ullrich Roetzscher case-bound the edition and made the slipcases. Maxine Hong Kingston is an American novelist and professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. She has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese Americans. Among her many awards, Ms. Kingston has won the 1997 National Humanities medal and in 2014, the 2013 National Medal of the Arts. This book contains eleven pieces that previously appeared in The New York Times in 1978, except "A Sea Worry," which appeared in a weekly column entitled "hers," published here with the permission of The New York Times and Alfred A. Knopf. The text is about an adventure that took place in Hawai'i twenty years prior to publication; the distance of time reflects both the facts that the original writing often took place years prior, and the author's understanding of events with hindsight. A beautiful, and colorful, book.
42 copies OCLC. (Inventory #: GIL921-023)
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