hc. Good+. All pages and cover are intact. Possible minor highlighting and marginalia. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC. ISBN 9622098819 9789622098817 [US]

ISBN10: 9622098819, ISBN13: 9789622098817, [publisher: Hong Kong University Press] Hardcover
[Victoria, BC, Canada] [Publication Year: 2008]

Hong Kong University Press, Date: 2008. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2008. Hong Kong University Press ISBN 9622098819 9789622098817 [US]

Hong Kong University Press, Date: 2008-02-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Signed by Author. Inscribed by Hayter-Menzies to former owner in May 2008, on title page; presumed first.Hardbound book in crisp, clean condition throughout, with sharp-cornered text block. Blue boards are likewise straight and sharp cornered. Full color dust jacket in mylar is fresh and crisp in appearance. 2008. Hong Kong University Press ISBN 9622098819 9789622098817 [US]

Hong Kong University Press, Date: 2008-03. Hardcover. Used: Good. 2008. Hong Kong University Press ISBN 9622098819 9789622098817 [US]

Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, Date: 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xxviii, 389, [3] pages. Illustrations. Legacy. Notes. Family Tree. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads 29 May 2008. To Shan'l -kua--With best regards. Grand Hayter-Menzies. Stamp and facsimile signature of Princess Der Ling on half-title page. Decorative endpaper. Foreword by Pamela Kyle Crossley. For over a decade, Grant Hayter-Menzies has specialized in biographies of extraordinary women, publishing the first full length lives of stage and screen stars Charlotte Greenwood and Billie Burke, Chinese-American author Princess Der Ling, diarist Sarah Pike Conger, wife of the American ambassador to China and friend to the controversial Empress Dowager Cixi of China, Pauline Benton, the American-born master of Chinese shadow theatre, and Lillian Carter, mother of President Jimmy Carter. In 2015, Grant published a biography of Rags, the mascot terrier of the First Division in France during WWI, and his biography of Dorothy Brooke, the Englishwoman who in 1930 Cairo, Egypt discovered and saved thousands of elderly and abused warhorses, mules and donkeys abandoned by the British at the end of WWI, was published in the US and UK. His biography of Woo, the Javanese monkey companion of Canadian artist and writer Emily Carr; 'The North Door: Echoes of Slavery in a New England Family' is Grant's memoir of discovering ...