September Monkey. Life in Ewha; Taking Korea to America; War Years; Lotus; etc :Centuries-old Traditions & Customs Crumbled During the Lifetime of This Extraordinary Woman Who Tells Here the Vivid Story of Her Life in the Old & New Korea
1954réf. 3182New York Harper & Brothers 1954. 1954. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st edition ; 283 pp. ; 22 cm. ; LCCN: 54-8981 ; OCLC: 391182 ; LC: CT1848.P3; Dewey: 920.7 ; "To an illiterate Buddhist mother and a scholarly Christian father one day came a great disappointment--the birth of a daughter. 'If only this baby were a boy what a great career he would have' mourned the father noting the auspicious date on which 'September Monkey' arrived. But the mother--shortly to become a widow and a despised Christian as well--went about preparing her 'girl-boy' baby for the unheard-of experience of education somehow realizing that if a new day for women in Korea were to come she would have to make it." ; SIGNED presentation by the author in English and Korean ; appendix with details on Asian astrology ; brown and black cloth with white lettering in somewhat soiled dustjacket ; foxing ; marks of a paperclip on a few pages ; fore-edge untrimmed ; VG/VG New York, Harper & Brothers, 1954. hardcover
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