SIGNED, The Emperor of Shoes, Spencer Wise, Signed on the title page, First Edition, First Printing, New, buy 2018

buy Toronto: Hanover Square Press, 2018. SIGNED. 1st/1st. First Edition. First printing with no other printings listed. Signed by Spencer Wise on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.99) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.

Alex Cohen is a 26-year-old Jewish Bostonian, living in a remote village in southern China where his father runs a family-owned shoe factory. When Alex reluctantly assumes the helm of the company and explores the plant's vast assembly lines, he comes to a grim realization: employees are exploited, regulatory systems are corrupt, and Alex's father is engaging in payoffs and bribes to protect the bottom line.

As he becomes close to a seamstress named Ivy, Alex's sympathies begin to shift to the Chinese workers. When it is revealed that Ivy is an embedded organizer of a pro-democratic Chinese party and is secretly sowing dissonance, Alex is torn. Will he remain loyal to his father and his heritage?

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