Amy tan preface (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1ST EDITION/1ST PRINTING STATED Large heavy hardcover book NEAR FINE/dustjacket NEAR FINE brodart covered.

Condizione: VERY GOOD. 1st trade paperback printing. The artist / author's first book, one in which she retells her father`s story of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the fourth son of a prominent Manchurian family and his odyssey included the years of the Japanese occupation of China, the Russian onslaught upon Northeastern China and the civil war that followed. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full page watercolor paintings by the author as well as many black and white drawings. Preface by Amy Tan. Boldly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication, with a drawing of a cat by Yang. Large square format. 211 pp plus a final portrait of her father. Very good+ (covers slightly bent).…

Condizione: FINE. First printing. The artist / author's first book, one in which she retells her father`s story of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the fourth son of a prominent Manchurian family and his odyssey included the years of the Japanese occupation of China, the Russian onslaught upon Northeastern China and the civil war that followed. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full page watercolor paintings by the author as well as many black and white drawings. Preface by Amy Tan. Large square format. 211 pp plus a final portrait of her father. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. Fine in Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.206. Baba (Papa) born in Manchuria in 1928, his daughter Belle, set out to write and paint (beautiful drawings and illustrations throughout the book) to preserve his memories of his coming of age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. A tale of a prominent Manchurian family who experienced the Japanese occupation, the Russian onslaught and the Chinese civil war. clean tight copy slight rubbings to d/j. The Author (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: NEW - COLLECTIBLE. Condizione sovraccoperta: None as Issued. First Edition, First Pinting. Text/NEW & Bright. 1996 First Edition, Printing "A". Illustrated softcover/NF; w/faint creasing to lower front corner tip. Taiwan born, Californian Belle Yang (1960 -) is an artist, author, graphic novelist and children's book writer. After graduation from Univ.of CA, Santa Cruz, she spent 3 years in Beijing, China to be present during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. This, on her return home, her first book, was completed in 1994. In Chinese, "Baba" is simply "Papa" in English. This is biography of Belle Yang's father, Joseph Yang (1928- ), born in Manchuria, coming of age in northern China in the 1930s to 1940s, migrated to Taiwan before the U.S. Life of an heir to the prominent House of Yang of the northeastern extremity of the Great Wall, who knew of early Japanese invasion, Russian onslaught, fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty, ensuring flood of "White Russians" escaping the fall of Russian tsars at the hand of communist "Red Russians, and the ensuing rise of Chinese communism after World War II. A poetic portrait of Joseph Yang and that of 1930s, 1940s & 1950's China --- a song in words with watercolor renditions from a daughter. The 1937 Sino-Japanese invasion, marking the beginning of World War II (5 years before Pearl Harbor), set the last Ch'ing Dynasty heir Pu-yi in a puppet regime when China was already flooded with "White Russians" upon the fall of their Tsar. This is Baba's life --- a story of war, social upheavals & resiliency. Of the author's watercolor paintings, one depicts a tranquil rural setting against bombs falling far off --- it is told that then peasants, though knowing full well what bullets were, first thought bombs were but an odd phenomenon of bottles falling from the heavens. Belle Yang (Author & Illustrator) (illustratore). …

Condizione: FINE. First printing. The artist / author's first book, one in which she retells her father`s story of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the fourth son of a prominent Manchurian family and his odyssey included the years of the Japanese occupation of China, the Russian onslaught upon Northeastern China and the civil war that followed. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full page watercolor paintings by the author as well as many black and white drawings. Preface by Amy Tan. SIGNED by both Belle Yang and Amy Tan on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. Large square format. 211 pp plus a final portrait of her father. Fine in fine dust jacket.…

Hardback. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine Dj. First Edition -stated, Also Letter "A". A near fine or fine copy of the book and jacket inscribed by Belle and signed along with a cat drawing she did on the endpaper as a holiday present for someone. Also signed by Baba as Joseph Yang with a little flourish-type drawing by him as well. Two different pens and handwriting/drawing styles. Signed by Two.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; xx, 211 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 x 24 cm. ISBN 9780151000630 0151000638 LCCN 94016410 LC PS3575.A53 B33 1994Dewey 813.54 ; slate-grey and beige cloth, in color pictorial dustjacket ; author's first book ; Baba ("papa" in Chinese) recounts the colorful childhood tales of Yang's father, who grew up at a time of great political and social upheaval in China. Behind the protective walls of the House of Yang, Baba is immersed in a world of the legends and colorful characters of village life. Yang's beautiful watercolors accompany each story and create "an astonishing personal vision" (Kirkus Reviews, pointer). Preface by Amy Tan; illustrations.; FINE/FINE. Book.…