The Fifth Book of Peace

 Maxine Hong Kingston

 Signed 2003 First Edition, Alfred A. Knopf. NY

Octavo.  Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, and black boards in FINE condition in a like dust jacket.  401pp.  One of the most distinguished living authors in the United States, Ms. Kingston’s The Woman Warrior was selected by the National Book Critics Circle as the best work of non-fiction published in 1976.  China Men was winner of the National Book Award in 1981. Tripmaster Monkey won the PEN West Award for fiction in 1989.  She won the Lifetime Achievement Award from Asian American Literary Awards in 2006 and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation in 2008