The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Title: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Author: Kingston, Maxine Hong

Publication: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

Description: First edition of Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior," winner of the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Bound in quarter maroon cloth with beige paper sides blind-stamped with Chinese folktale imagery; title, author, and publisher in gilt on spine; top edge of text colored blue. 8.5 in x 5.75 in; [10], 209, [5] pages.

Front free endpaper with signature of former owner and spots of soiling. Bumped corners, slight lean to spine, and moderate soiling at edges of text block and binding. Dust jacket with mild soiling on the rear panel and a very small crease at the top of the front flap; front panel clean and bright. The book is Good in a Very Good dust jacket.

"The Woman Warrior" was Maxine Hong Kingston's first book and is considered a seminal work of Asian American and feminist literature. She defied genre by combining autobiography with traditional Chinese folktales while exploring themes of gender and ethnicity.