Wild Swans: Signed (29 results)
Language: English
Published by Tundra Books, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2003
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Seller: M. W. Cramer Rare and Out Of Print Books, Toronto, ON, CanadaM. W. Cramer Rare and Out Of Print Books
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. The book is signed by the illustrators, Nelly and Ernst Hofer, on the full title page. Hofer, Nelly / Hofer, Ernst (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s).
Published by Dial, New York, 2008
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Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.Bud Plant & Hutchison Books
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Hardcover. 1st ed. 1st ptg. thus, 4to picture book, revised edition, pictorial boards, illustrated in color throughout by Susan Jeffers. Fine in near fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks. Signed by the artist on the title page. Signed by the artist. Jeffers, Susan (illustrator).
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Seller: R & B Diversions LLC, Stratford, WI, U.S.A.R & B Diversions LLC
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. author signed (bound in limitation page) first print, first UK hardcover edition in mylar protected dust jacket. NEW, no marks, not remaindered, not exlib, meets publishers first edition id criterion. non-fiction hardcover. Signed by Author.
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Seller: BookMail, Cardiff, United KingdomBookMail
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Signed by Jung Chang. First Edition 1st Print. Brand new. Signed by Author(s).
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Seller: Topping & Company Booksellers, Bath, United KingdomTopping & Company Booksellers
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hard. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Signed first edition (First edition, first printing, signed by the author) THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION A Book of the Year in The Times, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times…'A must-read … magnificent’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ***** 'Beautiful and moving' ELIF SHAFAK, OBSERVER Jung Chang’s Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother – ‘three daughters of China’ The book opens in 1909 with her grandmother’s birth – and foot-binding – when China was under the last emperor, moving through Mao Zedong’s rule, especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jung’s parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage. It finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the ‘reforms’ Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West. Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a global power, the challenger to the United States’ dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung’s life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences dealing with the regime in those years were rich and revealing – especially so because all her books were (and are) banned. Fly, Wild Swans is the follow-up to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jung’s family – along with that of China – up to date. The book is in many ways Jung’s love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father, both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung’s subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what’s more, it promises to herald the future. China is now at another watershed moment with the era of Chairman Xi Jinping greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Fly, Wild Swans is Jung’s heartfelt response to that experience, and a book filled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history – both personal and global. Ultimately uplifting, told in Jung’s clear, honest and compelling voice, it is memoir writing at its best. 'Profoundly revealing as a portrait both of a family and of the deeper traumas that lie at the heart of modern China' RORY STEWART 'Another wonder book from Jung Chang…I am quite blown away by it' LADY ANTONIA FRASER.
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Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United KingdomRickaro Books BA PBFA
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine new copy, signed by the author. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West. Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a global power, the challenger to t…he United States' dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung's life has been intimately entwined with her native land. 312pp. Signed by Author(s).
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Seller: Spiral Tower Books, Appleby Westmoreland, United KingdomSpiral Tower Books
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Chang, Jung ,Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China, The hotly anticipated sequel to the multi-million copy international bestseller, Signed, Edition will be sent boxed and via a signed for method of postage Extra postage will be needed for overseas orders… if the weight exceeds one kilo book is signed without dedication unless stated otherwise. All books come with a lifetime guarantee No Coa's issued unless the book originally came with one then it will be included with the book. Tracking Information will be added with your order on abe books once available Please make sure your book is insured for the correct amout at the time of purchase as i cannot accept responsibility for parcels that are under insured , basic recorded delivery covers your book up to £50 other services are available at the checout which will insure your book up to £750 if you wish me to use a specific courier please contact me as i can arrange this and will send you a quote unfortunately these services cost money and will only be provided if requested and paid for ,thank you for your understanding. Signed by Author.
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Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA
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Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket/brodart coverd. First Edition with illustrations by Susan Jeffers. Signed by her "With Love Susan Jeffers" A very nice copy. No bumped corners to book. No tears to jacket. SUSAN JEFFERS [Signed] (illustrator).
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Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. near fine. First Printing. Quarto; 40 pages, dark blue cloth; one nick at rear panel of dj, 1.5 in. tear at upper left corner Inscribed by Susan Jeffers on the title-page to Michael, " This book is especially for Michael . with love from / Susan Jeffers 1985".
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Seller: Christopher Morrow, Bookseller, Port St. Lucie, FL, U.S.A.Christopher Morrow, Bookseller
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition. First Printing. [x], 309,[2]pp. 8vo. Paper over boards, stamped spine. Book is a stated British first edition and the number 1 is on the copyright page. The author has signed her name on a publisher's tipped-in page. Book is unread, unmarked, unclipped, tigh…t, and bright. Jacket has an archival protector. Slight push to spine heel. Two sections of photographs. Signed by the author sticker on jacket front. The author's follow-up to "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China.".
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Published by William Collins, London, 2025
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Seller: InkandSignatureBooks, Zetland, NSW, AustraliaInkandSignatureBooks
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Signed UK first edition hardcover of Fly, Wild Swans by Jung Chang, published in 2024. The long-awaited follow-up to her international bestseller Wild Swans, this book continues Chang's powerful personal and historical account of modern Ch…ina, tracing family, identity, and political change across generations. One of the most anticipated literary and historical releases of the year. This copy has been personally signed by Jung Chang and was purchased directly from the UK. The book is new, unread, and in pristine condition, stored carefully and handled only for photography. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by William Collins, London, 2025
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Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United KingdomClearwater Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on a special leaf tipped before the half-title. 8vo. 309pp. Light grey boards, lettered in black at the spine. Illustrated with one double-spread map and fifty colour and monochrome photo…graphs. A trace of bruising to the backstrip ends, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A sequel to her best-selling tri-generational biographical 'Wild Swans' (1991), bringing the story of her family, and of China, up to date. Signed by Author(s).
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Seller: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Talent, OR, U.S.A.Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First printing of revised edition. Signed by Jeffers on the title page with two small hearts. Illustrated glossy paper covered boards. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy. Jeffers, Susan (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).
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Seller: Brogden Books, Cumbria, United KingdomBrogden Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. large 8vo cloth pp liv+666 bw plates map index F/F- Family chronicle. New edition with Introduction, author signed. [ Heavy book, so extra postage overseas. ]. Signed by Author(s).
Language: English
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1999
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Seller: Libris Redux, Dundas, ON, CanadaLibris Redux
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing Softcover in Fine condition. Signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).
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Seller: Books On The Boulevard, Daphne, AL, U.S.A.Books On The Boulevard
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE SIGNED! UK FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full number line present. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed by the author directly to specially bound publisher's half title signature page reading "Limited Signed… Edition". NOT inscribed to anyone. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! The long-awaited sequel to Wild Swans, the multi-million copy, international bestselling sensation that traces the history of modern China through the true stories of three generations of women in one family. Jung Chang's epic family memoir, Wild Swans, defined a generation, chronicling the experiences of Jung, her mother, and her grandmother"three daughters of China"as China transformed from empire to Communist nation. Fly, Wild Swans continues the story of Jung's familyand Chinafrom the late 1970s until today. During that time, China rises from a decrepit and isolated state to world power challenging American dominance as Jung makes a new life in the Westone of the first Chinese to leave her homeland at the end of the Cultural Revolution. As Jung becomes a writer, her life remains intimately entwined with her native land, a relationship made more complex because her books are banned. A love letter to her mother, and a tribute to her grandmother and father, victims of the Cultural Revolution, Fly, Wild Swans reveals that for Jung, the past is never far away. It has shaped her, just as it has molded modern China and continues to influence its future. Today, China is again at another watershed moment: Chairman Xi Jinping seeks to return the country to the Maoist days, building a Communist state with capitalist features. This new Xi era is greatly affecting both Jung and her mother. Fly, Wild Swans brings their story into the present, offering an immersive, deeply moving, and unforgettable account of life in a communist dictatorship and the threats modern China poses to the international world order. It is family history at its best. Signed by Author(s).
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Seller: Quinto Bookshop, London, United KingdomQuinto Bookshop
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New edition, 2003. "With new introduction bringing the story up to date from where Wild Swans left off." First thus; first printing. SIGNED by the author to title page. 666pp.+ [xvi] plates. Slight age-toning to leaves as usual. A fine copy. Signed b…y Author(s).
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Seller: Westmoor Books, Bedale, United KingdomWestmoor Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine First Edition, first printing in a Near Fine unclipped DJ.signed by the author to the title page. Signed by Author(s).
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Seller: Zeitgeist Books, Middlesex, United KingdomZeitgeist Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A VG+ UK first edition, first printing hardback (some moisture damage to lower boards) - in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (same moisture damage to verso) - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promp…tly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED & LINED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures of the book are available upon request. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by William Collins, London, 2025
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Seller: Book Box London, London, United KingdomBook Box London
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed First Printing. An almost Fine book with a pushing to head and light signs of handling. Signed by the author to the publishers limitation page. Almost Fine unclipped wrapper with the price of £25.00 to front flap and the publishers black 'Sign…ed Copy' roundel affixed to upper cover. Some signs of gentle handling. Now in removable Mylar. Cat. No. 00571. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2003
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Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A very smart signed copy of Jung Chang"s award-winning Wild Swans, a landmark three-generation memoir of women"s lives through a century of Chinese history. In the publisher's original dark cloth binding. Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Flat signed by t…he author, Jung Chang, to the title page. A 2003 HarperCollins reissue of Chang"s landmark memoir, first published in 1991. Illustrated with eight double-sided plates of photographs and a double-page map of China preceding the text. Collated, complete. Jung Chang's best selling biographical account of life in China from three women; her grandmother, her mother, and herself, over the span of a century. This take on Chinese history tells the often untold experiences of women in the late 19th and 20th century. Wild Swans won the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year, and has been translated into 37 different languages. In the publisher's original dark cloth binding.Externally, very smart. Very slight shelf wear to extremities. Dust wrapper, excellent. One or two very light marks to spine. Very slight edge wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Flat signed by the author to the title page. Fine. None Stated (illustrator). signed by author. book.
Published by Jarrolds, GB, 1952
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Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United KingdomRichard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976)
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: VG+. nrVG DW. 1st Edition. Slight tape marks to endpapers else Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Entire DW has a 70mm closed tear (internally repaired). Inscribed by Author on title page "For W Disspain - Ceade mille failte - from the Author Eth Mannin Feb 1958". W…ith a postally used "Letter-Card" to Dispain (perhaps 200 words). typewritten but extensively corrected in MS in which she mentions her detestation of letter cards, her books but mostly discusses her mother's health and its affect on her work. The card is signed twice simply "EM". Inscribed by Author.
More imagesPublished by Tiamat Press, 1979
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Seller: Marc J. Bartolucci, Hudson, MA, U.S.A.Marc J. Bartolucci
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Leverett: Tiamat Press, 1979. Quarto portfolio, featuring ten folded leaves, ten black and white plates and a signed prospectus folded and lain in at front. Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay accompanied by ten etchings by Taylor, each signed and numbered by her. One of 50 copies produ…ced by the press this being No. 14. Title page stained and creased, else clean and bright internally, in publisher's portfolio with heavy scarring and pitting to rear panel, but VG or better overall. OCLC locates six copies. Signed by Illustrator.
Published by Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, 1917
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Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller1st Edition. 8vo, original linen-backed boards with printed label on spine, glassine dust jacket. Limited to 400 copies printed. Wade 118. Signed on the title-page by Yeats. Glassine slightly chipped, otherwise a very fine copy. Limited to 400 copies printed. Wade 118. Signed on the title-page by Yeats. Glassine slightly chipped…, otherwise a very fine copy. First edition in book form of the title poem, one of Yeats' most memorable lyrics.
More imagesPublished by Harper Collins, 1991
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Seller: April Star Books, Banstead, United KingdomApril Star Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first print, inscribed: in the rare and very hard to find first state dust jacket. The inscription, on the title page, is written in blue ink and reads: 'For Marjarie, Happy birhtday! Jung Chang'. Beneath the author's name is her name…stamp in full-form Chinese; the first state jacket differs from the far more common later state jackets with the name of the book and the author on one line in a smaller font that the later first print jackets, which has the author name and book title on two lines. The red character on the spine means swan or wild goose. The book is clean inside, with no ownership name. The only marks are on the final free endpaper, some faint marks along the top left-hand edge. The green cloth of the book is clean. Spine tips pushed, one bottom corner lightly pushed, other corners are firm. Text block clean bar some light shelf rubbing. No bumps to the boards. The jacket is not price-clipped, with the original £17.50 price present; the spine is not sunned. Jacket verso is clean with light toning to top and bottom edge. Bottom right hand corner of jacket has a short 3mm closed-edge tear. A very good/near fine copy of a hard to find very first state. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Cuala Press, 1917
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Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.Magnum Opus Rare Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by W.B. Yeats on a laid in signature. The book is in excellent condition with slight wear to the spine. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A su…perb copy SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED Yeats First Editions. Signed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by Harper Collins, 1991
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Seller: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, United KingdomSurrey Hills Books
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Add to basketNinth printing of the First Edition. Signed copy. Very good condition in very good plus unclipped dust jacket. The book shows some signs of wear, with bumped corners and pushing to the head and tail of the spine. The dust jacket is creased at the edges (see photo). Signed, without inscription, by Jung Chung to the title page, al…ong with the authentication ink stamp of the author's full name in Chinese. Book.
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Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United KingdomHenry Sotheran Ltd
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Add to basket[London:] Harper Collins. [1991.] 8vo. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. 524, [2], double-page sketch map, head and tail-pieces, plates after photographs; light fading to spine as usual, top and bottom edges a little dusty, a very good copy of the 6th printing of this classic (published in t…he year of the first impression), the author's first book and a world-wide success.Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author on title-page.'Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a red guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a PhD in linguistics in 1982 - the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. She is the author of the best-selling Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, and, along with her husband Jon Halliday, of the biography, Mao: The Unknown Story. Her books have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 15 million copies, in addition to millions in pirated editions and computer downloads in mainland China where both books are banned. Among the many awards she has won are the UK Writers' Guild Best Non-Fiction (1992) and Book of the Year UK (1993)' (HarperCollins, online).The very rare first printing has the full number line of impressions on the title verso. The many later printruns simply dropped this line in its entirety, as is the case here. The true first edition of 1991 seems to have both title and author's name each as one line on the spine of the wrappers.
More imagesPublished by London: HarperCollins, [c.2000], 2000
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Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United KingdomPeter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB.
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Add to basketA uniquely inscribed copy of this famous memoir, with two poignant handwritten reflections by the author, on "My Mother & My Family at the Time of Coronavirus", echoing many of the themes of the work including personal liberty, resilience in the face of adversity, and the importance of family. First published in 1991, Wild Swans… remains the most widely read English-language autobiography by a Chinese writer; it is still banned in China. The author's meditations occupy the final five leaves, the rear pastedown, and a loosely notecard with a printed design after an oil portrait of her mother, Xia Dehong. In her first entry, dated April 2020, she reflects on the difficulties of securing official leave to visit Xia Dehong in China, as well as her mother's resilience during the lockdown in Chengdu. She also speaks of her pride in her nephew, an NHS doctor on the front lines of the fight against COVID. "Around this time of the year in the past, I was often woken in the middle of the night by a sense of dread, anticipating new hurdles turning up in the morning that would threaten my visit to my mother. This year, I wake up feeling anxious about whether Joe has adequate personal protective equipment". In the second entry, penned on New Year's Eve 2021, Chang writes that "news from China is more and more worrying. The regime seems bent on dragging the country back to the Maoist days and is promoting Mao with draconian measures. I am facing unprecedented danger if I set foot in China. And so, it seems, my fear of many years that I could not be with my mother in her last moments will be a reality". Chang discussed her inscriptions in this copy at a roundtable in support of English PEN held on 3 July 2022 in London. Overall, a unique example of a truly monumental work, exemplifying autobiography's potent ability to challenge hegemonic power. Octavo. With 16 half-tone plates, double-page map of China. Original green boards, spine lettered in gilt with gilt Chinese character "hong" ("swan"). With illustrated dust jacket. Housed in a dark blue flat-back cloth box by the Chelsea Bindery. Binding bright, a little cocked, light bumping at spine ends, internally clean and bright. A near-fine copy in like dust jacket, unclipped, with touch of creasing.
