My Name is Tian 1st Edition from the library of Frank Thompson

Novel by Korean author Don’o Kim, set in Vietnam from the days before Dien Bein Phu to the arrival of American forces; the author studied in Australia in the 1960’s; from the library of Frank Thompson (signed by Thompson to front endpaper) – Thompson is a legendary figure in Australian publishing, for his career at the University of Queensland Press, which he transformed from an academic press to a publisher of poetry and literature, publishing first collections of David Malouf and Michael Dransfield; foxing/tanning to endpapers and prelims, o.w. Very Good; dustwrapper a little edgeworn and rubbed, o.w. G-VG.