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BUCK Pearl S.
Dragon Seed
New York: John Day Co 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good in good dustwrapper. Hardcover rubbed at spine ends and corners soiled and worn. Dustwrapper rubbed and chipped with tape repair at spine ends torn at corners soiled and worn faded spine. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. John Day Co hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 242030
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Buck Pearl S.
EAST WIND: WEST WIND
New York: John Day Company 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Bound in bue cloth with gilt lettering spine gilt design lower corner front cover. Very good copy with fading to gilt on spine mild wear to spine tips short closed tear top of first few pages. 277 pp. <br/><br/> John Day Company hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 08955
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BUCK PEARL S.
Fighting Angel.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1936. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine in dust jacket a little faded at spine panel minutely rubbed. A biography of the author's father. <br/><br/> Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 12803
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BUCK Pearl S.
FIGHTING ANGEL: PORTRAIT OF A SOUL
NY: The John Day Company 1972. Specially-bound edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Buck on the limitation page this being copy #195. One of the selected works of Pearl S. Buck issued to recognize her 80th birthday. Buck whose maiden name is Sydenstricker was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She was well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoptions. "Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul" is a memoir about Buck's father Absalom Sydenstricker as a companion to her memoir of her mother "The Exile. 8vo. imitation white leather & red boards stamped in gilt top edge gilt; 302 pages. Fine condition. The John Day Company unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 57057
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BUCK Pearl S.
Fourteen Stories.
NY:: John Day Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. B004GBL3ZA . First edition. Previous owner's stamp on front paste-down else very good in a very good some light edge wear dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 89872
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BUCK Pearl S.
GOD'S MEN
NY: John Day 1951. First Edition. 8vo pp. 375. Flap of dj laid in. VG. John Day unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 31210
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BUCK Pearl S.
God's Men.
NY:: John Day Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. A novel. First edition. Very good in a very good faded along the spine foxing on rear panel and flap edges dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 94095
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BUCK Pearl S.
IMPERIAL WOMAN
NY: The John Day Company 1972. Specially-bound edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Buck on the limitation page this being copy #195. One of the selected works of Pearl S. Buck issued to recognize her 80th birthday. Buck whose maiden name is Sydenstricker was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She was well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoptions. "Imperial Woman" is the fictionalized biography of the last Empress in China Ci-xi who began as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing Dynasty until her death in 1908. 8vo. imitation white leather & blue boards stamped in gilt top edge gilt; 376 pages. Fine condition. The John Day Company unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 57058
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BUCK Pearl S.
Johnny Jack and His Beginnings.
NY:: John Day Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. B001NXWWXG . First edition. Very good in a very good edge worn chipped at the spine ends price clipped dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 92879
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BUCK Pearl S.
Kinfolk
New York: John Day Company 1949. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; original cloth in red and black pictorial dust jacket; 8406pp. Two tiny closed tears to jacket spine crown else Fine. "A Novel of China" - upper jacket panel. John Day Company unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 20869
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BUCK Pearl S.
KINFOLK
NY: John Day 1949. First Edition. 8vo pp. 406. VG no dj. A novel. John Day unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 31199
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Buck Pearl S.
La Chine Comme je La Vois (China as I See it)
Riferimento per il libraio : 53686VPRT ISBN : 5
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Buck Pearl S.
Lebendiger Bambus
Lingen Verlag 1964. Very Good. Buck Pearl S. Lebendiger Bambus. Koln: Lingen Verlag 1964. 428pp. 8vo. Cream cloth. Book condition: Very good with rubbed and bumped edges light bumping to bottom edge of text block and a crease in top corner of page 419. Lingen Verlag hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : UBUCLEB00MEL
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Buck Pearl S.
Letter from Peking.
Methuen & Co. 1957. First U.K. edition. Fine in fine faintly worn dust jacket in mylar cover. Methuen & Co., 1957. First U.K. edition. unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : Embry 188861
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BUCK Pearl S.
OF MEN AND WOMEN
NY: John Day 1941. First Edition. 8vo pp. 203. Partially unopened. A very good copy in some worn dj. Novelist Buck on the relationship between men and women finding that the imbalance in power threatens democracy. John Day unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 56545
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BUCK Pearl S.
Once Upon a Christmas.
NY:: John Day Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 51789
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Buck Pearl S.
Pavilion of Women
New York.: John Day. 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover rust cloth gilt titles. Bookplate to pastedown otherwise fine in a very good unclipped dust jacket with only light edgewear and slight sunning to spine. . 8vo. John Day. hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 288324
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Buck Pearl S.
Peony
New York; 1948: John Day. First Edition. Octavo. . 312 pages. Inscribed by Pearl Buck on the title page. An important novel by Pearl Buck the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize. While Peony is written in the realist style of Buck's earlier works such as the Good Earth it is distinctive in showing not only the lives and cultural practices of the Jews and their amazing assimilation into China while elsewhere they were castigated or as in the case of Nazi German marked for extermination. A near fine copy bound in brown cloth stamped in gilt spine gilt in near fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket. John Day unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 025604
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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 books
Riferimento per il libraio : 025603
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BUCK Pearl S.
Satan Never Sleeps.
NY:: Pocket Books. Very Good. 1962. Paperback. B0006AXIYY . C-429 Cardinal Edition. A novel. First printing thus mass market paperback. Very good or better in illustrated wraps. . Pocket Books, paperback books
Riferimento per il libraio : 93714
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Buck Pearl S.
SONS
New York: John Day Company 1932. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good-. Octavo. A very good- Review Copy in original yellow and red dust jacket over wrappers. Mild cover edge wear dampstain affecting lower edge of rear cover spine and a few pages. 467 pp. <br/><br/> John Day Company paperback books
Riferimento per il libraio : 08124
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Buck Pearl S.
SONS
New York: The John Day Co 1932. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. 467pp. Bound in light brown cloth lettered in gilt red pictorial endpapers top edge red. A fine copy in unclipped nearly fine dust jacket. A very handsome copy. 467 pp. <br/><br/> The John Day Co hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 0850
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BUCK Pearl S.
The Christmas Ghost.
NY:: John Day Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in a very good two closed edge tears on front panel both corners of front flap are clipped dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 86751
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Buck Pearl S.
The Dragon Fish
New York: John Day 1944. First Edition. Illus. by Esther B. Bird. 63 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Olive cloth near fine in very good chipped dust jacket. First Edition. Illus. by Esther B. Bird. 63 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. INSCRIBED TO HER SECRETARY. INSCRIBED by Buck to her secretary of 30 years "To Mrs. Shaddlinger and her children. With warm regards Pearl S. Buck John Day unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 237517
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BUCK Pearl S.
THE EXILE
NY: The John Day Company 1972. Specially-bound edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Buck on the limitation page this being copy #195. One of the selected works of Pearl S. Buck issued to recognize her 80th birthday. Buck whose maiden name is Sydenstricker was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She was well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoptions. This novel is about the author's mother during the dangerous Boxer Rebellion in China. 8vo. imitation white leather & red boards stamped in gilt top edge gilt; 315 pages. Near fine extremely minor signs of wear; contents clean & tight. The John Day Company unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 57054
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Buck Pearl S.
The Good Earth
London: Methuen & Co. LTD 1931. First British Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First British edition first printing of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Bound in publisher's original cloth. Near Fine with light fading to spine a small ding to top and bottom edge of upper board. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear. Methuen & Co. LTD unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 140940954
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BUCK Pearl S.
THE GOOD EARTH
NY: The John Day Company 1972. Specially-bound edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Buck on the limitation page this being copy #195 dated June 1972. One of the selected works of Pearl S. Buck issued to recognize her 80th birthday. Buck whose maiden name is Sydenstricker was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She was well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoptions. An autographed copy of Buck's most famous book!. 8vo. imitation white leather & blue boards stamped in gilt top edge gilt; 316 pages. Fine but for extremely tiny rubbed spot rear pastedown; contents clean & tight. The John Day Company unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 57053
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Buck Pearl S.
The Good Earth
New York: The John Day Publishing Company 1931. First Edition. Good. First edition first printing first issue with "The John Day Publishing Company Inc." on copyright page. Error "flees" that was present in the first three printings on p. 100 line 17. vi 375 1 pp. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering green illustrated endpapers. A Good copy with frayed and worn cloth at head and tail rubbed scuff to back board name written on front free endpaper. Lacking the extremely scarce jacket. The first appearance of the Pulitzer-winning bestselling novel. The John Day Publishing Company unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 140939707
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Buck Pearl S.
The Good Earth
London: Methuen 1931. First UK edition. iv 339 1 8 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth. Foxed Very Good. First UK edition. iv 339 1 8 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Methuen unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 249478
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Buck Pearl S.
The Kennedy Women: A Personal Appraisal.
New York: Cowles Book Company 1970. First Edition. Octavo cloth & boards hardcover 218 pp. Photos. Former-owner inscription; otherwise Near-Fine in a chipped dust jacket. Cowles Book Company, [1970]. First Edition. hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 70313s
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Buck Pearl S.
The Kennedy Women: A Personal Appraisal
New York: Cowles Book Company 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Buck on the half title. First edition second printing. 218pp. Leather-backed ream-colored cloth boardslettered in gilt. Very Good with light foxing to cloth and very slight lean to spine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with small closed tear near foot a bit of light staining to back panel. Best known for her Pulitzer-winning novel The Good Earth in this book Pearl S. Buck examined the long-suffering women of the Kennedy political dynasty. Cowles Book Company hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 170727003
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BUCK Pearl S.
The Kennedy Women: A Personal Appraisal
hardcover. very good. Illustrated. 8vo cloth. New York 1970.<br/><br/> unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 106726
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Buck Pearl S.
The Kennedy Women; a Personal Appraisal Signed By Pearl S. Buck in a Limited Edition
New York: Cowles 1970. First Edition. Octavo. . 218 pages. Limited to 575 copies for presentation and signed by the author this is number 160. Besides the well-known Kennedy women such as Rose Jackie and Ethel she also writes of the lesser known ones. This is a woman's view of the tragic deterioration of a proud and powerful family caused Miss Buck believes by the standards and failures of the society that spawned it. Bound in 1/4 brown leather over white cloth spine lettering gilt some finger soiling to cloth in clipped dust jacket. showing only very minor wear to spine ends. Cowles unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 025607
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BUCK Pearl S.
THE LIVING REED
NY: The John Day Company 1972. Specially-bound edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Buck on the limitation page this being copy #195. One of the selected works of Pearl S. Buck issued to recognize her 80th birthday. Buck whose maiden name is Sydenstricker was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She was well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoptions. Buck's epic tells the history of Korea through the lives of one family. She paints an amazing portrait of the country and makes us empathize with their struggle for sovereignty through her beautifully drawn characters. 8vo. imitation white leather & green boards stamped in gilt top edge gilt; 316 pages. Fine condition covers nice; contents clean & tight. The John Day Company unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 57055
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BUCK Pearl S.
THE LIVING REED
NY: John Day 1963. First Edition. 8vo pp. 478. Part of a bookplate on flyleaf o/w VG no dj. A novel about Korea. John Day unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 31205
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BUCK Pearl S.
THE NEW YEAR
NY: The John Day Company 1972. Specially-bound edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Buck on the limitation page this being copy #195. One of the selected works of Pearl S. Buck issued to recognize her 80th birthday. Buck whose maiden name is Sydenstricker was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She was well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoptions. 8vo. imitation white leather & blue boards stamped in gilt top edge gilt; 255 pages. Fine condition. The John Day Company unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 57059
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Buck Pearl S.
The Patriot
John Day 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition no mention of later printing on copyright page. Very good in a very good jacket. John Day hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 1503473
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Buck Pearl S.
The Promise
New York: John Day 1943. 248 pages very good hardcover in edgeworn dustjacket. Novel about Chinese soldiers who are sent to rescue a British-American platoon in Burma from the Japanese army. John Day unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 241848
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Buck Pearl S.
The Water Bufffalo Children
New York: John Day 1943. William A. Smith. 60 pages. One of the more scarce children's books by Pearl Buck. Based on her childhood growing up in China she writes of her fantasies of magic and Aladdin she picked up a stone and rubbed it when she saw large figures including the Water-Buffalo Children and others. A marvelous tale of imagination and childhood ways of viewing their world. John Day unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 025606
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Buck Pearl S.
The Water-Buffalo Children
New York: John Day 1943. First Edition. Illus. by William Arthur Smith. 60 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Very good in edgeworn dust jacket. First Edition. Illus. by William Arthur Smith. 60 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. INSCRIBED by the author to her secretary's daughter Jackie Shaddlinger "For Jackie Shaddlinger with appreciation and good wishes. Pearl S. Buck. John Day unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 237518
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Buck Pearl S.
Yu Lan Flying Boy of China
New York; 1945: The John Day Co. First Edition. 60 pages Illustrated by George T. Hartman. An uncommon work of Pearl Buck's. This is the story of a small Chinese boy who saw air planes of the Japanese but one lucky day an American pilot made an emergency landing close to Yu Lan's home and he ran to meet the pilot and the story tells how his friendship with the pilot. Bound in gray pictorial cloth depicting a young boy holding an airplane blue spine lettering blue some toning to covers and endpapers previous owner's name stamped in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with a few closed edge tears chip to foot tape mend to underside light foxing. The John Day Co unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 025605
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Buck Pearl S.
Yu Lan: Flying Boy of China
New York: John Day 1945. First Edition. Illus. by George T. Heartman. 60 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Olive cloth lightly soiled in torn and creased dust jacket. First Edition. Illus. by George T. Heartman. 60 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. INSCRIBED by the author to her secretary's daughter Jackie Shaddlinger "For Jackie Shaddlinger Pearl S. Buck. John Day unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 237519
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BUCK Pearl S. contr. WAN SY. alt. spelling Hsin Yuan Wen ed S. Y.
Specimens of Chinese-English Translation; or Selections from English Translations of Chinese Classics
Hong Kong: World Book Store 1959. First Edition. Octavo ca. 19cm.; publisher's blue decorative card wrappers; xviii163pp. Wrappers a bit cockled from exposure to damp light wear from handling else Very Good and sound. Text in Chinese and English throughout. Date of publication based on date of Foreword p. xv. Includes examples by James Legge Herbert Giles Arthur Waley Pearl S. Buck and others. Scarce; OCLC locates two copies in North America as of April 2020 at the Brooklyn Public Library and Purdue-Fort Wayne. World Book Store unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 48509
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Buck Pearl S. Harry Price Sacha Guitry Chiang Lee et al.
Zigzag: a magazine devoted to new and forthcoming books vol. I no. 4 Summer 1936
London: Methuen 1936. Magazine. 32p. 5.75x8.75 inches illustrated with b&w photogravures very good literary review in green art deco stapled wraps. Pearl Buck on what else China Sacha Guitry reviews a play he saw 33 years earlier photo of Chiang Yee making a brush illustration for a film. Methuen unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 184628
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Buck Pearl S. & Nick Bertozzi.
The Good Earth.
Simon & Schuster 2017. First printing thus. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Graphic novel illustrations by Nick Bertozzi. Simon & Schuster, 2017. First printing thus. unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : Embry 194641
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Buck Pearl S. and Lindsey Jason
Essay on Myself. and A Study of Pearl Buck by Jason Lindsey
New York: John Day Company 1966. First edition. Cloth. A fine copy with only a hint of rubbing at the upper corners lacking the unprinted glassine jacket. 30 2 pp. Portrait frontis. 8vo. Signed by the Buck on the half-title. One of 1000 copies of Buck's address to the American Library Association1966. John Day Company hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 28946
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Buck Pearl S. SIGNED
A CERTAIN STAR
New York: The American Weekly 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Tall Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY PEARL S BUCK ON FFEP. Illustrated by Herschel Levit. A very good- copy with dampstains covers affecting pastedowns and endpapers. Bookplate front pastedown. 23 pp. <br/><br/> The American Weekly hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 08335
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BUCK Pearl S. with HARRIS Theodore F
For Spacious Skies: Journey in Dialogue
NY:: John Day Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. B0007DZWVW . First edition. INSCRIBED by both authors in the year of publication. Very good in a very good minor edge wear dust jacket.; 221 pages . John Day Company, hardcover books
Riferimento per il libraio : 70351
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BUCK Pearl S. with VON PUSTAU Erna
How It Happens; Talk About the German People 1914-1933
New York: John Day 1947. First. hardcover. very good/very good-. 8vo black cloth d.w. with a small amount of slight chipping d.w. lightly soiled corners of cloth and a small area bottom edge of back cloth cover lightly bumped. New York: John Day 1947.<br/><br/> John Day unknown books
Riferimento per il libraio : 278026
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Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Beaune H. de
Pearl Buck ... Maintenant et á jamais : Traduit de l'amricain par H. de Beaune
Riferimento per il libraio : CKD114AP ISBN : 1819
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