The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts [Signed First Edition]

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

Author: Kingston, Maxine Hong

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

Description: First edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. 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. Slight lean to spine and cracked rear hinge; dust jacket with short closed tears and sunned spine panel. Very 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. Winner of the 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction.