The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter [signed 1st edition]

London, Michael Joseph, 1997. First edition of Adeline Yen Mah's first autobiographic book, signed by her with a blue pen on the title page. Octavo, 225 x 140 mm, (ix) 278 pp. Green cloth hardcover with dust jacket. Signed in Chinese and English by Ms Yen Mah. Book in good condition. Edges show very tiny dots, a little foxing on the first pages near the spine, bottom of the DJ lightly crumpled, margins slightly yellowed. Binding is in very good shape, paper clean, DJ is crisp and well protected beneath its original mylar.

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A heartbreaking book, this True Story tells of a very bad in start fraught with desperation and doing everything to get out of one's condition. The author claims writing the book was difficult but she felt compelled to do so. Since then, while the book sold in the hundreds of thousands of copies, Adeline Yen Mah only appeared a very few times in public and rarely signed her work. This is a beautiful signed copy of her most important book, 1st edition.