Tren Tam Muoi Nam Tai The Gian (Over Eighty Years on This Earth).
Milpitas, CA: The Phan-Vinh Family, 1994. Paperback. Translation by Clara Phan Knudson. Photographs by James A. Smestad. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 234pp. Numerous illustrations (some color). Very good. Item #27837
First edition, tight and nice, of this memoir by a Vietnamese engineer and architect who fled to America, with interesting side-by-side Vietnamese/English text. Well-known UPI photographer Smestad, whose photographs grace this book, was also the author's son-in-law. Large, choice signature and inscription in black fineline from the photographer to another well-known photographer, Archie Lieberman (1926-2008) of "Farm Boy" fame, on the front flyleaf: For Archie / from / Jim & [ ? ] / Smestad / 5-23-96." Below this, Lieberman pens Smestad's name and address.
Price: $45.00