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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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 96291
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Buck, Pearl S
The Christmas Ghost
New York: John Day Company 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x8x0. Magagna Anna Marie. First edition. Includes original jacket. Ink gift note on front endpaper endpapers lightly foed and toned bottom corner of front jacket flap clipped a couple closed jacket tears and a 1/2 inch abrasion along top edge small tape repair and 1/4 inch chip along rear jacket edges. 1960 Hard Cover. 42 pp. Pictorial boards not the less desirable blue cloth library binding. Illustrations by Anna Marie Magagna. A Christmas story for young readers by the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning The Good Earth and other novels. Buck was also the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. John Day Company hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2338641 ISBN : 038199919X 9780381999193
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BUCK, Pearl S
The Dragon Fish.
New York: The John Day Company 1944. First edition first printing presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Mrs Shaddinger and her children - With warm regards Pearl S. Buck". Helen H. Shaddinger 1911-1995 worked as Buck's secretary for 25 years - after her death the long lost manuscript for The Good Earth was found among her possessions. Centred on a friendship between a Chinese and an American girl this story was originally written by Buck for her children to help them better understand life in China. The illustrator Esther Brock Bird lived for a time in China and provided drawings for Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom the 1940 work by the famous China-hand Carl Crow. Octavo. Illustrations in text. Original light green cloth spine lettered in green green vignette on front board. With dust jacket. Jacket chipped especially at spine ends 45 mm closed tear on front panel professionally repaired with tissue unclipped: a fine copy in very good jacket. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 165033
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Buck, Pearl S
The Dragon Fish
E-286: The John Day Co. Very Good. 1944. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by John Day New York 1944. 63 pgs. Signed by Pearl Buck on the FFEP. Second Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Dragon Fish. Two little girls one American and one Chinese tired of their brothers decide to run away. With the help of a magic Dragon Fish they go off to the city seeking adventure and find much more than they had hoped for. EB; 8.6 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches; 63 pages; Signed by Author . The John Day Co hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 63206
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Buck, Pearl S
The Enemy Creative's Classics
New. library. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0886820596 ISBN : 0886820596 9780886820596
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Buck, Pearl S
The Enemy Creative's Classics
library. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0886820596.G ISBN : 0886820596 9780886820596
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Buck, Pearl S
The Eternal Wonder
Open Road Media 2013. Paperback. New. 288 pages. 8.00x5.50x1.00 inches. Open Road Media paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1-1480439703 ISBN : 1480439703 9781480439702
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Buck, Pearl S
The Eternal Wonder: A Novel Deckle Edge
Open Road Media 2013-10-22. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Open Road Media paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : Q-1480439703 ISBN : 1480439703 9781480439702
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Buck, Pearl S
The Exile
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0330022466.G ISBN : 0330022466 9780330022460
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Buck, Pearl S
The Exile
New York: John Day/Reynal and Hitchcock 1936. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with a decorative impressed quarter in green; title in green and gilt on spine. Clean and tight with no marks. 5 5/8 x 8 5/16 inches. 315 pages. <br/><br/> John Day/Reynal and Hitchcock hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 9032847
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Buck, Pearl S
The Exile
P. F. Collier And Son Corporation. Hardcover. New. . P. F. Collier And Son Corporation hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 90-21267
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BUCK, Pearl S
The Exile
New York: A John Day Book/ Reynal & Hitchcock 1936. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good or better dust jacket with light wear at extremities of spine and front panel and tiny nicks at the crown. A John Day Book/ Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 526126
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Buck, Pearl S / Sydenstricker
The Exile
New York Ny: The John Day Company / Reynal & Hitchcock 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good /No Jacket. 315 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Dark Green Spine Lettered In Gilt On Black Top Edge Green. First Edition. Light Usage No Marks Very Good <br/> <br/> The John Day Company / Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 055177
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Buck, Pearl
The Exile / in a special binding
The Exile Reynal and Hitchcock / John Day 1936 first edition fine in glassine wraps as issued which exhibit wear tear and chipping. A pre-publication issue with a special binding and Christmas Greetings card for select customers laid in. Reynal and Hitchcock / John Day paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 13182
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Buck, Pearl S
The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1788690494.G ISBN : 1788690494 9781788690492
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BUCK, Pearl S
The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1936. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Spine gilt a trifle tarnished else fine in about fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing at the extremities. Biography of Buck's mother who spent much of her life in China. A bright copy of an uncommon title. Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 425541
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BUCK, PEARL S
THE FIRST WIFE AND OTHER STORIES
NEW YORK NY: JOHN DAY CO THE. VERY GOOD IN A VERY GOOD D.J. PUB 1933. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL LIGHT BROWN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT SPINE TITLES AND RED DECORATED ENDPAPERS. BOOK HAS A SMALL GASH AT THE HEEL OF THE SPINE'S FRONT CORNER. THE D.J. HAS A 1/4" DEEP CHIP AT THE HEEL OF THE SPINE PANEL ADJACENT TO THAT ON THE BOOK WITH MODERATELY WORN CORNERS A SLIGHTLY FADED SPINE AND NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A VERY NICE CLEAN AND UNMARKED COPY. . JOHN DAY CO (THE) hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : COLLECTI014313I
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Buck, Pearl S
The First Wife and Other Stories
New York: John Day 1933 "With an extended biographical and bibliographical introduction by Richard J. Walsh." Unclipped Dustjacket; $2.50 "To be published in July Recomended by the British Book Society ect. " rear flap with ads rear cover. Slight soiling mild crease edgewear to scarce DJ. Decorated endpages. 312 pgs. Nice copy of hard to find edition. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. John Day hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 00284972
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Buck, Pearl and Zarfoss, Gweneth
THE GIFTS THEY BRING: Our Debt to the Mentally Retarded
John Day 1965. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Inscribed by Gweneth Zarfoss. A couple short tears to jacket. . John Day Hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 126876
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BUCK, Pearl S
The Good Deed and Other Stories of Asia Past and Present
New York: John Day 1969. Second. hardcover. near fine/very good-. 254 pages. 8vo brown cloth d.w. largely intact but dust-soiled price-clipped and with some foxing. New York: John Day 1969. Second impression. Near fine in very good- dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> Signed by the author on the half title page.<br/> <br/> John Day unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 325137
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Buck, Pearl S/ Bertozzi, Nick (Adapted By)
The Good Earth
Simon & Schuster 2017. Hardcover. New. 144 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Simon & Schuster hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1-1501132768 ISBN : 1501132768 9781501132766
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Buck, Pearl S
The Good Earth.
New York: The John Day Company 1931. First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. First issue with "flees" for "fleas" on page 100 line 17. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. In fine condition. Over eighty years have passed since The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know and I know nothing but China having always lived there" wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. This moving classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who want to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century. The John Day Company unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 143665
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Buck, Pearl S
The Good Earth.
New York: The John Day Company 1931. First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. First issue with "flees" for "fleas" on page 100 line 17. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on a page bound in "To Kermit and Helen Fischer with deep appreciation Pearl S. Buck Christmas 1958." In fine condition. Over eighty years have passed since The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know and I know nothing but China having always lived there" wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. This moving classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who want to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century. The John Day Company unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 143999
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Buck, Pearl S
The Good Earth The Modern Library of the World's Best Books ML 15
New York: The Modern Library 1944. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x4x0. Angelo Valenti. 1934-6 printing of Toledano 002.3 binding/jacket style 7f orange Rockwell Kent endpapers 95 cent jacket price 242 titles on jacket reverse. Jacket toned. 1944 Hard Cover. xiii 1 374 1 pp. Introduction by author Valenti Angelo jacket art. This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall. Hard times come upon Wang Lung and his family when flood and drought force them to seek work in the city. The working people riot breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee. When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded he begins to rise in the world even as the House of Hwang falls. The Modern Library hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2338927
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Buck, Pearl S
The Good Earth
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1416511105.G ISBN : 1416511105 9781416511106
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