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Buck, Pearl S
Portrait of a Marriage
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 084880791X.G ISBN : 084880791X 9780848807917
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Buck, Pearl
Portrait Of A Marriage
Peoples Book Club. Hardcover. Good. Good condition hardcover without marking. No dust jacket if applicable. Peoples Book Club hardcover
Bookseller reference : 40-13562
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Buck, Pearl S
Portrait of a Marriage
New York; 1945: John Day. Octavo. 224 pages illustrated by Charles Hargens. Buck's novel of a marriage set against the Pennsylvania countryside. "Marriage is so profound an experience" William wrote to his grown daughter "I should be sorry if you missed it. It takes place sometimes between two who are unsuited but still it is profound." In this fine novel Pearl Buck writes of a couple unsuited but the richness through trials is told in her marvelous style. Bound in green cloth spine lettering gilt gilt a bit dull a very good copy in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with light chipping to foot. John Day unknown
Bookseller reference : 025603
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Buck, Pearl S
Portrait of a Marriage
Toronto: Hounslow / Dundurn Press 1945. First Canadian Edition First Printing Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Charles Hargens. Book is set in Pennsylvania and relates the experience of a couple "so unlike " over the course of their marriage. 224 pp. Green cloth covered boards have gilt text on spine duotone green illustrated ep's. Book has rubbed spine ends lightly soiled boards and edges. Unclipped $3.00 DJ is edgeworn with chipping at spine ends and corners but with no major loss of material. Rear flap has review of 'The Townsman' by John Sedges. Digital images available on request. Bookseller's Inventory # 144317. <br/> <br/> Hounslow / Dundurn Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004317
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BUCK, Pearl
Poster for China Gold: "Don't Miss Pearl Buck's Powerful New Novel
1942. Unbound. Fine. Broadside printed on cardstock. Measuring 11" x 16". Very light soiling else fine. Poster reading "Don't Miss Pearl Buck's Powerful New Novel 'China Gold.'" The novel relating "How two young Americans find love in war-torn China" was serialized in Collier's Magazine in 1942 and has never been published in book form except in a German translation. unknown
Bookseller reference : 50794
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Buck, Pearl S
Promise the: a Novel of China and Burma
Garden City : White Lotus Press 1945. Paperback. Good/no dj. 0.34. Promise the: a Novel of China and Burma White Lotus Press paperback
Bookseller reference : N3852
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Buck, Pearl S
REGNBUEN RAINBOW
Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co 1976. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in a Good dust jacket. A few tears and rubbing to jacket. Staining. Owner name to FEP. Text is in Danish; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. H. Aschehoug & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 62739 ISBN : 8203088635 9788203088636
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Buck, Pearl S
Secrets of the Heart: Stories
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0381982874.G ISBN : 0381982874 9780381982874
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Buck, Pearl S
SIGNED INVITATION TO TEA. 1952
1952. Near fine. Typed invitation to Mrs. Eugene Twining Zionsville Pennsylvania. " I should be happy if you would come to Welcome House tea at my home.Yours cordially Pearl S. Buck." 10" x 7.5" laid paper. With enclosed typed card with "Directions" to Buck's home in Perkasie. Personal stationary with address "R.D. 3 Perkasie Pennsylvania" printed at top in envelope with printed return address using Buck's married name Mrs. Richard Walsh. Letter is near fine with a couple very faint spots; envelope is lightly soiled with some edge wear. Postmarked Oct. 1952. "Welcome House was established by Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck in 1949 as the first inter-racial adoption agency in the United States with the help of Bucks County notables Oscar & Dorothy Hammerstein James Michener and Lois Burpee. unknown
Bookseller reference : 50745
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Buck, Pearl S
Sons
NY: John Day. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled cloth red topstain pictorial endpages. First trade edition Sept. 1932. Spine a bit softened; bookseller ticket at rear. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is toned to spine chipped to top edge with a few minor damp spots. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 467 pages . John Day hardcover
Bookseller reference : 45591
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Buck, Pearl S
Sons
John Day 1932. Hardcover. Good. 8x6x1. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Some soiling/staining to edges. John Day hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2507300054 ISBN : 999740520X 9789997405203
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Buck, Pearl S
Sons
Used - Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
Bookseller reference : 46116554-6 ISBN : 999740520x 9789997405203
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Buck, Pearl S
Sons
John Day Co 1932-06-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! John Day Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : Q-999740520x ISBN : 999740520X 9789997405203
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Buck, Pearl S
Sons
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 999740520X.G ISBN : 999740520X 9789997405203
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Buck, Pearl S
Sons
Methuen 1951-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. NOT ex-library. Hardback/Hardcover clean text sound binding. Methuen hardcover
Bookseller reference : mon0000191051
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Buck, Pearl S
Sons
John Day Co. 1932. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. John Day Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : G999740520XI5N01 ISBN : 999740520X 9789997405203
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Buck, Pearl
Sons - Salesman's Dummy
New York: The John Day Company 1932 A salesman's Dummy. "First trade edition" so stated on copyright page with "September 1932." The first page of text is printed followed by 24 pages of order blanks for the first edition for $2.50 and first limited signed edition for $10. Following this are several hundred blank pages however someone has hand written some personal accounts in ink on the first 59 pages. 8vo. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and blindstamped. Red pictorial endpages. Clean and sharp. no jacket. Fine condition. The John Day Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 024704
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Buck, Pearl S
Sons Good Earth Trilogy
Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries 2005-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries paperback
Bookseller reference : Q-1559210397 ISBN : 1559210397 9781559210393
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Buck, Pearl S
Sons Good Earth Trilogy
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Bookseller reference : 1559210397.G ISBN : 1559210397 9781559210393
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Buck, Pearl S
Sons Good Earth Trilogy
Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries 2005-01-01. First Edition. paperback. Used: Good. 5.50x1.00x8.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries paperback
Bookseller reference : SONG1559210397 ISBN : 1559210397 9781559210393
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BUCK, Pearl S
Sons Inscribed and Signed to Amy Schwartz Oppenheim
New York: John Day Company 1932. First Trade Edition. Octavo 21cm.; publisher's brown cloth in yellow and red decorative dust jacket red topstain; 6467pp.; pictorial endpapers printed in red. Crown gently nudged some pinpoint wear to gilt titling on spine else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 gently spine-sunned and lightly dusty with light wear to extremities and a few closed tears along upper edge; Very Good. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf: "For Mrs. Oppenheim / Pearl S. Buck." Addtionally laid in are several pieces of ephemera and correspondence from the office of Laurent Oppenheim including two sheet of pencil notes on Plaza Hotel notepaper beginning with the mention of "Pearl Buck -Radio - Feb 20"; a mimeographed postcard announcing the opening of the Family Planning Center by the American Birth Control League at 701 Fifth Avenue; and an autograph note signed to Oppenheim from a Sheila Fry thanking her for an invitation to lunch at which she was to be introduced to Buck. Provenance: Inscribed to philanthropist Mrs. Laurent Oppenheim 1878-1955 née Amy Ruth Schwartz founder of the School Art League in New York City. John Day Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 47046
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Buck, Pearl; SparkNotes Editors
Spark Notes The Good Earth
SparkNotes 2002-07-15. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! SparkNotes paperback
Bookseller reference : Q-1586633961 ISBN : 1586633961 9781586633967
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Buck, Pearl S(ydensticker (1892 - 6 Marto 1973)
Stolzes Herz
HEYNE WILHELM 1980. 6. softcover. HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
Bookseller reference : 44311 ISBN : 3453007042 9783453007048
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Buck, Pearl S
Stories for Little Children
NY: John Day nd 1940. Green cloth. Spine lightly sunned light cover soil: VG/no dj. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated in color by Weda Yap. John Day hardcover
Bookseller reference : 23090903
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Buck, Pearl S
Story Bible
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0816136610.G ISBN : 0816136610 9780816136612
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Buck, Pearl
Sun Yat-Sen : A Play By Pearl Buck Preceded By a Lecture By Dr. Hu-Shih
London: China Campaign Committee Book. Very Good - Book condition. Pamphlet. Published circa 1944. A nice copy with some wear and creasing to covers. Text clean and binding solid. Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair. China Campaign Committee Paperback
Bookseller reference : 022901
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Buck, Pearl S:
Sønner. - Veiene skilles. - Den gode strid. - Kvinnepavilijongen. Første del. - Kvinnepavilijongen. Annen del. - Skansene faller. - Soonyas sønn. - Regnbuen. Oversatt av Liv Malling.
1977. Orig. pappryggb. Åtte bøker fra utvalgte romaner. . unknown
Bookseller reference : 233141
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BUCK, Pearl S
Talk About Russia with Masha Scott
New York: John Day 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 128pp. Contemporary owner signature and date on front fly with light offsetting on front endpapers binding slightly cocked topedge a trifle foxed very good in an about very good dust jacket with chips and tears and a modestly toned spine. John Day hardcover
Bookseller reference : 540289
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Buck, Pearl S
The Angry Wife
Used - Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. unknown
Bookseller reference : 57389904-6 ISBN : 0671753371 9780671753375
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Buck, Pearl S
The Beech Tree. First edition.
New York. : The John Day Company. 1955. First edition. . Decorated hard cover. . Fine copy in near fine very light shelf wear dust jacket in mylar. . Octavo. . Illustrated Boston. Kurt Werth. Very scarce in this condition. The John Day Company. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 234770
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Buck, Pearl S[ydenstricker
The Big Fight
New York NY: The John Day Company 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good . Mamoru Funai. 8vo 21 x 14 cm. 5 47 1 pp. Blue cloth covers with red titles to upper and spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ with publisher sticker to front panel. Lower front corner clipped price $2.95 still present to upper corner. In Mylar. The John Day Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4792
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BUCK, Pearl S and Mamoru Funai
The Big Fight
New York: The John Day Company 1965. First edition. Hardcover. A charming children's book from the author of "The Good Earth." Features illustrations by Mamoru Funai. A near fine copy in cloth boards but with some slight publisher paper defects to the bottom edge of the first few pages and in a near fine price clipped dust jacket dust jacket with the price still present on the top of the front flap and with the publisher sticker to the spine/front panel. A very nice copy of a seemingly fairly uncommon book. The John Day Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 200931
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Buck, Pearl S
The Big Wave
HarperCollins 1986-04-18. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! HarperCollins paperback
Bookseller reference : Q-0064401715 ISBN : 0064401715 9780064401715
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Buck, Pearl S
The Big Wave Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition
Turtleback Books 1986-04-18. School & Library Binding. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Turtleback Books unknown
Bookseller reference : Q-0808572725 ISBN : 0808572725 9780808572725
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Buck, Pearl S
The Big Wave
HarperCollins 1973-01-21. Library Binding. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! HarperCollins unknown
Bookseller reference : Q-0381999238 ISBN : 0381999238 9780381999230
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BUCK, Pearl S
The Bondmaid. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY BUCK.
Theodore Brun. London/The Collector's Book Club. 1949. Theodore Brun. In conjunction with The Collector's Book Club. 1949. This Limited De Luxe Edition appeared simultaneously with Methuen's first edition. LIMITED TO 750 COPIES ONLY SIGNED BY BUCK on open page after the half-title page. This is copy number 152. Bound in full black morocco gilt top edge of pages gilt. Marbled endpapers. Boards slightly marked. Inner hinge very slightly visible by signature page otherwise a clean and sound copy. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 97905
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Buck, Pearl S; Michener, James A [Foreword]
The Child Who Never Grew
Woodbine House 1992-09-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Woodbine House paperback
Bookseller reference : Q-0933149492 ISBN : 0933149492 9780933149496
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Buck, Pearl S
The Child Who Never Grew
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 0381980200.G ISBN : 0381980200 9780381980207
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Buck, Pearl S
The Child Who Never Grew
New York Day 1950. 1950. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Ink inscription blue cloth slightly bubbling else NrF. Ink inscription states that this was from a speech given at a convention in June of 1953 Signed by Buck on a tipped-in card. 3rd edition. New York Day 1950. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 004864
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Buck, Pearl S
The Chinese Children Next Door
New York: The John Day Company 1942. Ninth Impression. Cloth. Good. Oblong 12mo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. Red cloth with black titling. Lacking dust jacket. Light soiling to cloth chipping at spine ends mainly head. Binding shaken but sturdy. Faint discoloration to endpapers. Bright red and black illustrations throughout. An American mother tells the story of her childhood growing up in China and the neighboring family's efforts to finally produce a son after having six daughters. The John Day Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 823
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Buck, Pearl S; William Arthur Smith
The Chinese Children Next Door: Pearl S. Buck
John Day Company 1942. Twelfth Printing. hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. 9x6x0. Dust jacket has significant tears and chips soiling darkened spine price unclipped - poor condition. Yellow cloth boards have light rubbing at extremities clean interior. Library edition 12th printing. Pearl Buck drew on her own childhood to write this children's book about an American child in China. Ages 5-7. All orders packed with care most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve independent bookseller since 2011 John Day Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 13428
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Buck, Pearl
The Chinese Novel: Nobel Lecture Delivered Before the Swedish Academy at Stockholm December 12 1938
New York: John Day 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The lecture given by Buck on accepting the Nobel Prize for literature. She was the third American after Sinclair Lewis and Eugene O'Neill and fourth woman after Selma Lagerof Grazia Deledda and Sigrid Undset to win the prize.<br/> <br/> Buck whose best-known novel The Good Earth is set in China uses the Nobel pulpit to discuss Chinese fiction a little considered subject at the time. It wasn't until 2012 that a Chinese writer—Mo Yan—was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. <br/> <br/> 59 pages. First edition first printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a snag on the back panel resulting in a narrow band of creasing and some tears. Bookplate on the front pastedown. In a very good slipcase with some wear to the corners.<br/> <br/> This copy is one of an unspecified number signed by Buck and issued in a slipcase. It is possible that none of the signed copies were for sale. This one comes with a letter from the publisher addressed "Dear Bookseller" that reads "We take pleasure in sending you with our compliments a personal advance copy of The Chinese Novel." The letter goes on to promote a forthcoming Chinese novel Moment in Peking by Lin Yutang.<br/> <br/> This book is not common with the slipcase and letter. John Day hardcover
Bookseller reference : 308048
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Buck, Pearl S [Katherine Tozer (drawings)]
The Chinese Children Next Door
London: Methuen 1946. 3rd edition. Nice copy. small quarto. hardback with dust jacket 54pp. illusts. Nice copy of the British edition in blue boards decorated in red & black in a nice price-clipped wrap-around dust jacket by Katherine Tozer. Very uncommon in this condition Methuen hardcover
Bookseller reference : 152848
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BUCK, Pearl Illustrated by Katharine TOZER (Of Mumfie Fame)
The Chinese Children Next Door. FIRST UK EDITION.
Methuen & Co. London. 1943. Methuen. 1943. First edition. DW. Slim square 8vo. Illustrated boards and endpapers. Colour illustrations. Gift inscription to half-title. Edges of boards sunned pages slightly browned otherwise a clean and sound copy in wrapper that is slightly browned and worn with a small close tear and creases to top corner of rear panel. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 92544
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BUCK, Pearl S
The Chinese Novel: Nobel Lecture Delivered Before the Swedish Academy at Stockholm December 12 1938
New York: The John Day Company 1939. First Edition. Advance Issue one of an unspecified number of copies signed by Buck on the front endpaper and sent with "Dear Bookseller" letters roughly a month prior to publication with the compliments of The John Day Company. Octavo 22cm; black cloth with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; publisher's slipcase; ii45-593pp with a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Touch of dust-soil to cloth else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $1.50 lightly edgeworn with some light surface wear and a diagonal crease to rear flap; Very Good in like slipcase. <br /> <br /> Buck's Nobel Lecture in which she discusses the origins of the great novels of China and maintains "that it is the Chinese and not the western novel which has shaped her own efforts in writing." from front flap. The John Day Company unknown
Bookseller reference : 61177
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BUCK, Pearl S
The Chinese Children Next Door
New York: John Day 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Drawings by William Arthur Smith. Boards quite stained a good only copy in moderately stained good or better dust jacket. Inscribed by Buck on front fly: "For Gladys Rosa Watkins and I hope you like the Chinese children. Pearl S. Buck." Additionally Inscribed by the artist incorporating a Chinese chop mark: "To Gladys. Happiness to you forever! Bill. William Arthur Smith. March 4 1943." A very uncommon children's book. John Day hardcover
Bookseller reference : 501445
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BUCK, Pearl
The Chinese Children Next Door
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 36 Essex Street STrand W.C. 2 1943. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Katharine TOZER. WOMAN AUTHOR WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR. Katharine TOZER illustrator. Jas. Truscott & Son Ltd. Printers London E.C.3. First British edition. 8vo; 54pp; blue cloth over board portrait of a Chinese girl dancing on front stamped in red and black black lettering on front and spine; color pictorial endpapers; fp; 14full-page color illustrations; sunning of board bottom edges; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket chipping at head and tail of spine scattered foxing; near fine in very good dj. Pearl Buck 1892-1973 was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries she spent much of her life before 1934 in China with her parents and then her first husband. This is a story of some of her girlhood playmates in China. In later life she became a strong proponent of women's rights and racial equality. Methuen & Co. Ltd, 36 Essex Street, STrand W.C. 2 unknown
Bookseller reference : 1785
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Buck, Pearl S
The Chinese children next door
John Day. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. Former school library with stamp inside front cover and card pocket inside back cover. Illustrated white and red boards black titling. Solid binding moderate shelfwear head and tail of spine and corners bumped. Light surface soil. Clean unmarked pages. Drawings by William Arthur Smitth. ; 9 X 6 X 1 inches; 62 pages . John Day hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5619
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Buck, Pearl S
The Chinese Novel
New York: The John Day Co. 1939. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in Near Fine jacket; signed by author. Slipcase also present. See scans and description. New York: The John Day Company 1939. First Edition signed by the author uninscribed on the ffep. Thin octavo 59 pp. Black cloth binding with gilt imprinting black and gold jacket. Fine book in Near Fine jacket showing only light peripheral wear. Unclipped still bearing the $ 1.50 1939 price. The very scarce slipcase is also present albeit with detached spine; slipcase otherwise quite perfect. See all scans. One of Buck's scarcest. The Chinese Novel is Buck's Nobel Lecture delivered at the Swedish Academy upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Buck the first of just two American women to win the prize points out the distinct nature of the Chinese novel the quintessential grass-roots form which comes from and lives within the Chinese common people whose tea house and farming villages are the roots of the stories contained therein. She also predicted - correctly - that her own adherence to this form would cause her to fall out of the critical limelight in time. With the slipcase hard to replace. Provenance provided to purchaser. L12n <br/> <br/> The John Day Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000115
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BUCK, Pearl S
The Chinese Novel: Nobel Lecture Delivered Before the Swedish Academy at Stockholm December 12 1938
New York: John Day Company 1939. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a light rubbed near fine price-clipped dustwrapper lacking the cardboard slipcase. John Day Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 96291
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