The Kitchen God's Wife (The Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society)

415, [3] pp. 8vo. Full red leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, red ribbon marker bound in. Color frontispiece by Joyce Patti. Franklin Library's Signed First Edition Society released signed, limited editions of new works that preceded the trade editions, with a special foreword and frontispiece that appear only in the limited edition. "With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter."