8vo. (Slight toning.) Original cloth-backed boards (slight fading); publisher’s printed dust jacket (slight marginal toning verso).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF TAN’S FIRST NOVEL, in FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET with the “$18.95” price and the “$26.50” Canadian price beneath, and the back flap lists publisher’s address as “200 Madison Avenue.” SIGNED BY TAN on the title-page. The Joy Luck Club revolves around 4 Chinese migrant families in San Francisco who start a mahjong club and was adapted to film in 1993.

[With:] TAN, Amy (b. 1952). The Joy Luck Club. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1989. 8vo. (Slight toning.) Original cloth-backed boards (slight fading); publisher’s printed dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, later printing, in a later issue dust jacket with the publisher’s address missing on the back flap, but present on the front flap. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY TAN: “For Michael, Joy & Luck! Amy Tan.”