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1980Best.-Nr. 212769Atlanta: Nexus 1980. Limited. hardcover. fine. P.H. Polk. Exquisite black & white photographic portraits. Square 4to beige and brown cloth beige cloth slip case. Atlanta: Nexus 1980. Limited First Edition. A fine copy. One of 1200 signed and numbered copies. A monograph of the work of P. J. Polk one of the most important African-American photographers of the last century. Nexus unknown books
Best.-Nr. 1895AWA. 1. hardcover. AWA hardcover
1972Best.-Nr. ABE-1516460541571Pearl S. Buck 1972 1972 Size: 25.520.5cm. The first photo portrait was taken in 1970 not in 1972 when 9 of these photos were taken. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. Pearl S. Buck, 1972 unknown
1980Best.-Nr. 212769Atlanta: Nexus 1980. Limited. hardcover. fine. P.H. Polk. Exquisite black & white photographic portraits. Square 4to beige and brown cloth beige cloth slip case. Atlanta: Nexus 1980. Limited First Edition. A fine copy. One of 1200 signed and numbered copies. A monograph of the work of P. J. Polk one of the most important African-American photographers of the last century. Nexus unknown
1980Best.-Nr. HM4317Atlanta Georgia: Nexus Press 1980. Limited & Signed by Polk; 1/2 brown & cream buckram over boards gold titles tan endpapers / pastedown & lush black & white photo reproductions; Cream buckram slipcase; A near fine copy with small wear & dust soil to slipcase hardly worth mentioning; 111 pages. Illus. by P. H. Polk. 11.75"x12.25". Nexus Press hardcover
1943Best.-Nr. WALTER-FILM004029Vintage original script by Marguerite Roberts dated 8-13-43 with revisions on colored paper dated up through 11-26-43 for Pearl S. Buck adaptation. Brad bound printed wrappers mimeograph 190 pp. Minor water stains to covers generally NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD or better wrappers. Numerous pages have the name of director James Conway written in pencil making it almost certain that this was his copy of the script.However it does not contain any MS annotations. "As the Second Sino-Japanese War erupts in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of northern China the rural Tan family in southern China go about their daily chores without notice of the impending conflict. Jade Katharine Hepburn wife of Lao Er Tan Turhan Bey desires books an unconventional request for a Chinese wife. But when war finally reaches the family Jade is first to join the resistance leading pacifist patriarch Ling Tan Walter Huston to concern over his family's entry in the war." Wikipedia At this moment in her career after a few years of comedies in which her feminist characters generally got their comeuppance in the final reel Hepburn was now returning to the strong kinds of characters with which she had earlier been identified in this film with a woman screenwriter adapted from a novel by Pearl S. Buck. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paperback books
Best.-Nr. 2121AWA. 1. hardcover. Ken Sirmkovrilo! AWA hardcover
Best.-Nr. 2301AWA. 1. hardcover. Sirmkovrilo! AWA hardcover
1972Best.-Nr. 57053NY: 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
1950Best.-Nr. 12678San Antonio: San Antonio Brewers Association 1950. Seven-color lithograph including reproduced photographs of Calloway and a bottle of Pearl Beer measuring 19.25 x 23.75 inches. Minor edge wear faint dampstain along bottom edge else a really nice example. Very good. An evocative piece of midcentury advertising art featuring Swing Band leader Cab Calloway pitching Pearl Beer of San Antonio Texas. The text of the advertising piece reads: "Join the Swing to Pearl. Xtra Dry. Xtra Light. Xtra Mellow. The 3 X's of Texas - Swing Master Cab Calloway says 'Join the Swing to Pearl' Say.Bottle of Pearl Please." The advertisement is artfully illustrated by a banner of piano keys musical notes a bottle of Pearl Beer and a small outline of the state of Texas with a half-length portrait of Calloway enjoying a tall glass of Pearl at right. Calloway is dressed in an all-white tuxedo and holds a baton in his other hand. The famous band leader’s career as a pitch man included among others Rheingold Extra Dry Beer around 1960 Hula Hoops crackers in the late-1980s and Gap turtleneck sweaters as late as 1993 the year before he passed away. No examples of any Cab Calloway Pearl Beer-related material found in OCLC. A striking example of African American midcentury advertising in which the most famous band leader of Harlem’s Cotton Club hawks beer made in San Antonio Texas. San Antonio Brewers Association unknown
1942Best.-Nr. 500069"Pearl S. Buck" in dark blue fountain pen ink on Loew's letterhead New York April 17 1942. Also signed by witness Bliss Ananes and by New York Notary Public Milton C. Rose on April 21 1942 with notary blindstamp. Small folio 2 pages recto and verso with rubberstamped "Contract Office File Copy." Contract for motion picture rights to her novel "Dragon Seed." "Dragon Seed" was released by MGM in 1944 directed by Jack Conway starring Katharine Hepburn Walter Huston Turhan Bey Hurd Hatfield Frances Rafferty Agnes Moorehead and J. Carol Naish. The film received two Academy Award nominations. Exteriors for the film were shot in Calabasas north of Los Angeles and in Los Angeles' Chinatown district. During filming Buck visited the set of "Dragon Seed" and gave her approval to the production. Although some critics consider "Dragon Seed" a sequel to "The Good Earth" its characters and story line are unrelated to the earlier film. Many Asian actors who appeared in "Dragon Seed" also appeared in "The Good Earth."
1938Best.-Nr. ABE-1528297275496Pearl S. Buck 1938 1938 No.120.517cm1938. No.219.914.9cm 1938. No.317.511.9cm1938. No.411.610.2cm undated. No.519.913cm 1966. No.615.314.9cm 1938. No.718.915.9cm undated. No.8118cm 1938. No.92317.3cm 1938. No.102415.4cm 1960. No.1122.816.8 1938. Please note Photo No. 7 appears to be a later reprint not an original. 1st Edition. No Binding. Good/No Jacket. Pearl S. Buck, 1938 unknown
1988Best.-Nr. 55429San Mateo California: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc 1988. First printing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. Scarce first edition of this watershed work on Bayesian networks and the probabilistic underpinnings of AI technology - noted as one of "the most cited works in the history of computer science" ACM. Pearl is credited as the inventor of Bayesian networks. This influential work in probabilistic and causal reasoning has extended well beyond the bounds of artificial intelligence and computing "to philosophy psychology medicine statistics econometrics epidemiology and social science" Allen Newell Award citation. In 2011 he was awarded the renowned ACM A.M. Turing Award generally regarded as the "Nobel Prize for Computing." A handsome copy of this landmark title. 9'' x 6''. Original black cloth with gilt-stamped titles to spine and front board. In original unclipped no price as issued black pictorial dust jacket. xx 552 4 pages. Light bump to bottom corners bit of soil to top edge. Jacket with light edgewear and a bit of rubbing evidence of sticker removal to rear panel. Crisp. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc unknown
Best.-Nr. 1088AWA. 1.ND. hardcover. Nova Kovrajoformado! AWA hardcover
1948Best.-Nr. 32820565Buck won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 for "notable works which pave the way to a human sympathy passing over widely separated racial boundaries and for the studies of human ideals which are a great and living art." Gelatin silver print 16 x 20 in. Archivally framed. Estate Edition a limited edition of 20 copies embossed and numbered. $900 unframed; framed: $1300
1939Best.-Nr. 308048New 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. 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. 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. 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. This book is not common with the slipcase and letter. John Day hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 222118New York 1946. reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAIT: The Photography of Carl van Vechten from this print. Half-length view of the performer in costume. 1 vols. 34.5 x 24 cm 13-5/8 x 9-1/2 inches. Fine. Atelier stamped on verso docketed by Van Vechten in ink recording the subject of the photograph "Pearl Bailey takes a call after singing A Womans Prerogative" the date the number of the negative "vi - cc - 3" and indications to the printer for reduction. reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAIT: The Photography of Carl van Vechten from this print. Half-length view of the performer in costume. 1 vols. 34.5 x 24 cm 13-5/8 x 9-1/2 inches. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN 1978 unknown books
1936Best.-Nr. 13182The 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
1946Best.-Nr. 222118New York 1946. reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAIT: The Photography of Carl van Vechten from this print. Half-length view of the performer in costume. 1 vols. 34.5 x 24 cm 13-5/8 x 9-1/2 inches. Fine. Atelier stamped on verso docketed by Van Vechten in ink recording the subject of the photograph "Pearl Bailey takes a call after singing A Womans Prerogative" the date the number of the negative "vi - cc - 3" and indications to the printer for reduction. reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAIT: The Photography of Carl van Vechten from this print. Half-length view of the performer in costume. 1 vols. 34.5 x 24 cm 13-5/8 x 9-1/2 inches. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN 1978 unknown
1853Best.-Nr. 16766New York: Stringer & Townsend 1853 First edition. Pamphlet bound in early twentieth century half brown leather over light brown cloth boards. . Twelvemo. Some fading to leather on upper board. Spine rubbed. Top edge gilt. Purple endpapers with bookseller's ticket in right hand corner of lower endpaper. Title-page coming loose at head. Some dampstaining to first dozen or so leaves. Some toning and foxing to leaves. Still a good tight copy of an item that is rare in commerce. Wrappers removed in rebinding. The present work compiles letters first published in the New York Tribune discussing whether divorce should be legal. The epistolary conversation takes place between Henry James Sr. 1811 – 1882 the father of psychologist William James and novelist Henry James; Tribune founder and editor Horace Greeley 1811 – 1872; and Stephen Pearl Andrews 1812 – 1886 an abolitionist and anarchist. Andrews released the present work when Greeley refused to print one of his letters to the Tribune. In the letter Andrews argues in favor of divorce permitting sex outside of marriage and the right of women to freely choose their husbands pp. 71-81. Greeley based his rejection partially on the grounds that Andrews' letter described injustices against women in excessive detail. Stringer & Townsend, hardcover
1971Best.-Nr. BPS,TGEPLEASE SEE THE PHOTOS OF THIS DIRECT SIGNED AND DATED ONLY. REVISED AND RESET BUT ALONG THE SAME LINES AS THE FIRST EDITION. HARD TO FIND IN THIS CONDITION SIGNED. Light bruising to spine endsonly defects I see a really nice copy. I collect Pearl Buck so I have an extensive library including the only Review Copy to survive so far1 of 125 totally intact. JOHN DAY hardcover
Best.-Nr. ABE-8945205303Pearl S. Buck Large Size Original Photo 17.712.6cm flat signed by Pearl Buck in pen. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Pearl S. Buck paperback
1919Best.-Nr. PRINT15JT0222Public Health Reports No. 548 1919. Pamphlet. Collectible; Very Good. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Offprint. Reprinted from Public Health Reports No. 548. Ownership stamp of the Library Mammalian Genetics Center. First separate edition. Offprint. Original wrappers. Public Health Reports, No. 548 unknown
1939Best.-Nr. 000115New 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 The John Day Co. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0023270 217 x 165 mm Pas de couverture