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]

Pahk, Induk, 1896-1980. [photo, Marie Heck Baldwin]

Published by New York, Harper & Brothers, 1954., 1954

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 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]
• Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers, 1954.
• Publication Date: 1954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Catalog 71 - Korea