Ah Wong

'I was ten when I first met him. The place was a sugar plantation in the tropics of Australia, and the day juts out like a promontory from the level lands of memory'; based on the author's childhood association with Ah Wong, the caring Chinese cook employed by the Travers' family; issued as a Christmas greeting; 1/500 numbered copies, inscribed by the author to James and Tania Stern, writer and translator respectively, the latter also a therapist in New York; printed at The High Grade Press, New York.

Publisher: Privately printed
Place Published: [New York]
Printed wrappers, stapled. Darkened around perimeter, staples beginning to rust. Very good.


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