Published by Vintage, 2004
ISBN 10: 0679760636 ISBN 13: 9780679760634
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Published by Knopf, 2003
ISBN 10: 0679440755 ISBN 13: 9780679440758
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Published by KNOPF, ALFRED A, 2003
ISBN 10: 0965499766 ISBN 13: 9780965499767
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Published by Penguin Random House, 2004
ISBN 10: 0099466635 ISBN 13: 9780099466635
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Published by Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd, 2003
ISBN 10: 0436202646 ISBN 13: 9780436202643
Seller: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
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Published by Alfred A Knopf. NY., 2003
ISBN 10: 0679440755 ISBN 13: 9780679440758
Seller: The Book Scot, Mansfield, MO, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Book size about 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches with some 402 pages. Bound in black and red paper over boards with gilt spine lettering. In the original dust wrapper with a front flap price of $26.00. Wrapper is enclosed in a removable clear plastic protector. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITH HER DISTINCTIVE SIGNATURE, ON THE TITLE PAGE. Book and wrapper with no sign of wear. AS NEW/AS NEW. Signed by Author.
Published by Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003
ISBN 10: 0679440755 ISBN 13: 9780679440758
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003
Seller: Bittersweet Books, North Stonington, CT, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Uncorrected paperback proof of the hardcover book. Inscribed and dated June1, 2003, more than three months before the September 8, 2003, release date. A powerful book of catastrophic beauty by a National Book Award winner. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Knopf, 2003
ISBN 10: 0679440755 ISBN 13: 9780679440758
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Maxine Hong Kingston at the title page. Red and black boards with gold spine titles, decoration in blind at front panel. Boards very good, bumped to spine tips. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good in Mylar with light wear. Interior clean and bright, unmarked. Signed.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 2003
ISBN 10: 0679440755 ISBN 13: 9780679440758
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by author on title page without inscription. 2003 Hard Cover. 401, [1] pp. 8vo. The Fifth Book of Peace opens as Maxine Hong Kingston, driving home from her father's funeral in the early 1990s, discovers that her neighborhood in the Oakland-Berkeley hills is engulfed in flames. Her home burns to the ground, and with it, all her earthly possessions, including her novel-in-progress. Kingston, who at the time was deeply disturbed by the Persian Gulf War, decides that she must understand her own loss of all she possessed as a kind of shadow-experience of war: a lesson about what it would be like to experience up close its utter devastation. Thus she embarks on a mission to re-create her novel from scratch, to rebuild her life, and to reach out to veterans of war and share with them her views as a lover of peace. In the middle section of this remarkable book, Kingston reconstructs for us her lost novel, the lush and compelling story of the Chinese-American Wittman Ah Sing and his wife, Taña?California artists who flee to Hawaii to evade the draft during the Vietnam War. Wittman and Taña help to create an official Sanctuary for deserters and GIs who've returned devastated by their experiences in Vietnam?not unlike, as it turns out, the metaphorical sanctuary Maxine creates, back in her real world, by inviting war veterans to participate in writing workshops. As the vets share their stories, she teaches them both the value of writing?the accurate transcription of what is in the heart?and the value of community. Paradoxically, the stories of war and its terrors become for her and the vets a literature of peace?words that enable them to achieve peace, at least within themselves. Moving among the vets with her Buddhist-inflected wisdom and at times humorous self-doubts, weaving their stories together with her own struggle to reorient herself after the fire, Maxine Hong Kingston is at times a kind of sprite, an almost weightless spirit, who guides others toward a better place, and at times a challenging teacher, who will not let us turn from the spectacle of a world so often at war. Signed by author.
Published by N.Y:Knopf Books. 2003. Hardcover., 2003
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
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Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj, 2003
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover first edition - First printing. A blend of fiction and memoir, this is in part a recreation of her lost novel, a sequel to China Men titled 'The Fourth Book of Peace," which was destroyed in the fires that burned in the Oakland hills, and an account of her attempts to remake her life after the fire and her experiences working with Vietnam veterans in writing workshops. 402 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf., New York., 2003
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
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Hard cover. First edition. Signed by the author. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Published by Secker & Warburg, 2003
ISBN 10: 0436202646 ISBN 13: 9780436202643
Seller: Coach Books, Hutton Roof, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Secker & Warburg 2003. 402pp. An UNREAD, vg in vg unclipped DW, FIRST edition, FIRST Printing HARDBACK +++SIGNED+++ by the author on the title page. Very slight nick on bottom of dw spine. #2. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Secker & Warburg, 2003
ISBN 10: 0436202646 ISBN 13: 9780436202643
First Edition Signed
Condition: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. Signed by author on laid in bookplate. (vietnam war, interviews, biography, history).
Published by Knopf, 2003
ISBN 10: 0679440755 ISBN 13: 9780679440758
First Edition Signed
Condition: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. Signed by author on laid in bookplate. In protective mylar cover.
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.
Published by Vintage 2004, 2004
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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Published by Secker and Warburg 2003, 2003
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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Published by Vintage 2004, 2004
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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softcover octavo (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by secker & warburg
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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octavo paperback (near fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
Published by Secker 7 Warburg, London, 2003
ISBN 10: 0436233932 ISBN 13: 9780436233937
Seller: Marlowes Books and Music, Ferny Grove, QLD, Australia
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 401 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. A Unique Form Of Chinese 'talk Story' In Which Real And Imagined Worlds Intrude Upon And Enrich One Another.
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Published by Vintage Books, U. S. A., 2003
ISBN 10: 0679760636 ISBN 13: 9780679760634
Seller: West Side Books, Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition/ First printing. Signed by author on title page. Trade paperback is in Fine, unread condition, with slight edge wear. ; Trade PB; Signed by Author.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Cream wrappers. Fine with publisher's material laid in.
Published by New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj, 2003
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
SIGNED hardcover first edition - First printing. A blend of fiction and memoir, this is in part a recreation of her lost novel, a sequel to China Men titled 'The Fourth Book of Peace," which was destroyed in the fires that burned in the Oakland hills, and an account of her attempts to remake her life after the fire and her experiences working with Vietnam veterans in writing workshops. SIGNED on the title page 402 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Published by New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, 2003
ISBN 10: 0679440755 ISBN 13: 9780679440758
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 402 pages. Published in 2003. The author's sequel to her debut novel, "Tripmaster Monkey". Her best book as such. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Fifth Book of Peace". The great author's retrieval project. Began fourteen years ago, Maxine Hong Kingston tentatively titled her book, "The Fourth Book of Peace", echoing a Chinese legend about The Three Books of Peace. As the legend went, the latter were all burned. So while we have innumerable Books on War, the secret to lasting peace has been elusive because there is no surviving text. As it happened, Hong Kingston's own manuscript was also destroyed when her home burned down, an uncannily suggestive personal disaster that made the author even more determined to start over and finish the book. Hence its title. "She re-creates her lost fictional narrative and sets it alongside an account of her life after the fire so that the Vietnam-era doings of her antic hero, Wittman Ah Sing, who moves to Hawaii to evade the draft, are juxtaposed with her own experience teaching writing workshops for veterans of Vietnam and other wars. Rich in empathy and moral conviction, Kingston is also such an exuberant storyteller that readers may regret that she purposely leaves the fictional narrative unfinished" (The New Yorker Magazine). That is, however, the whole point: That peace will always remain elusive. No sooner is it within our grasp that we do something to lose it again. An absolute "must-have" title for Maxine Hong Kingston collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in pink pen-marker on the title page by Maxin Hong Kingston. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. As is her custom, Maxine Hong Kingston added her signature-chop. It comes with a rare and pristine copy of the lovely Souvenir Material of the event during which her signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for "The Woman Warrior" in 1976, the National Book Award for "China Men" in 1980, and the National Medal for the Humanities. One of the greatest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MAXINE HONG KINGSTON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0679440755. Signed by Author.
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf [2003]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. New, in dust jacket. A pristine unread copy. Very fine/very fine in all repsects. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Smoke free shop. Shipped in sturdy box with bubble wrap. [c4] 0.0. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Softcover. Padbound uncorrected proof that measures 8.5" x 11" and has an information sheet under the mylar front cover. A memoir from the author of the National Book Award winning "China Men." A close to near fine copy in wrappers with some pen notes on the first page by a publisher's representative. Scarce in this format.
Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 401 p. Size: 25 cm Number of books: 1 book.