BUCK, Pearl SABAA
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1936rif. 425541New 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 books
1949rif. 376394London: Theodor Brun Limited 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition Limited de luxe issue published simultaneously with the trade issue. Full leather gilt. Scrape on the spine affecting three letters on the title else about very good. Copy number 523 of 750 numbered copies. Theodor Brun Limited hardcover books
2003rif. 356113New York: Random House 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Random House hardcover books
1999rif. 337053Athens Georgia: Hill Street Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Hill Street Press hardcover books
1942rif. 285144New York: Common Council for American Unity 1942. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Stapled printed wrappers. Small stain at bottom corner of the front wrap and a little offsetting at the edge of the front wrap a very good copy. Fairly uncommon. Common Council for American Unity unknown books
1995rif. 575482Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Presumed first edition. Afterword by Eudora Welty. Illustrated. Fine in a fine dust jacket as new in publisher's shrink wrap. "A lively memoir detailing days before during and after an editorial life at the New York Times Books Review. University Press of Mississippi hardcover books
1971rif. 439304New York: Pocket Books 1971. Softcover. Very Good. Third printing. Mass market paperback. 190pp. Pages age-toned spine creased and cocked sticker offsetting on rear wrapper very good. Pocket Books unknown books
1968rif. 528960New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Early reprint. Illustrated with black and white plates. Near fine with light wear and very good rubbed dust jacket with edgewear including small nicks tears and creases. Inscribed to actress Novella Nelson: "Love to dear dear Novella Pearl Bailey who has nothing to prove - Thank God - it's there." Nelson served as Bailey's understudy in an all-black version of Hello Dolly! in 1967 and would go on to join the cast of the Tony nominated cast of Purlie the following year alongside Tony winners Melba Moore and Clevon Little. Harcourt, Brace & World hardcover books
1969rif. 441414New York: Pocket Books 1969. Softcover. Very Good. Later printing. Mass market paperback. 189pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Pages lightly age-toned spine creased and cocked with small tape repair at the foot about very good. Pocket Books unknown books
1976rif. 429704New York: Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Third printing. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Pearl Bailey and additionally warmly Inscribed to four-time Emmy Award-winning television talk show host Bill Boggs. Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich hardcover books
1989rif. 149516Garden City New York: Doubleday 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 270pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. Doubleday hardcover books
1959rif. 326463New York: Creative Press 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with a slightly darkened spine a little browning on the endpapers. Creative Press hardcover books
1945rif. 101502NY:: John Day Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. A novel. First edition. Very good in a very good long closed tear along rear flap fold - tape repaired on the verso dust jacket.; 224 pages . John Day Company, hardcover books
1957rif. 101567NY:: John Day Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. Hardcover. A novel. First edition. Previous owner's name on front paste-down else very good in a very good moderate edge wear fading along the spine dust jacket. ; 252 pages . John Day Company, hardcover books
1969rif. 70460Boulder CO: Pruett Publishing Company 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good . 134 pp. Octavo 22.5 cm; full light blue cloth covered boards. Title stamped in dark blue on the spine. Map endpapers in front and folded map tucked into pocket on rear endpaper. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Beautiful pictorial dust jacket. Some light staining to rear panel of the jacket a few tiny closed tears along edges and folds of jacket all measuring less than one centimeter which have been unfortunately "repaired" with clear tape on the inside/verso of the jacket. Spine of jacket lightly age toned. Internally clean and unmarked. Pearl Baker's biographical account of Bert Loper's life and various river running adventures. Pruett Publishing Company hardcover books
1942rif. 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." books
1950rif. 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 books
1975rif. 219991Westwood Massachusetts: F.W. Faxon 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine. Fifth supplement 1968-1973. Near fine ex-library copy with usual markings. From the preface: The Fifth Supplement to the Index to Handicrafts Model Making and Workshop Projects indexes over 1000 British and American books published from 1968 to 1973. It also provides full reference to material published in fifteen periodicals not indexed in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature including several British periodicals. F.W. Faxon hardcover books
1950rif. 167128New York: Harper & Brothers 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Black cloth with gilt title on spine. Title on spine lightly faded corners bumped else very good in a good only price-clipped dustwrapper with edges chipped. Contributions by: Pearl buck W.H. Auden Thomas Mann John Hersey Rex Stout Arthur Koestler Paul Gallico James Michener Winston Churchill and many more. Thirty-eight in all. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1992rif. 129633Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1992. Hardcover. Good. Third edition. Quarto. 1237pp. Highlighting throughout with sticky notes on almost every page with owner's notes owner's name on page foredges thus good only. J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1925rif. 36630New York: Thomas Seltzer 1925. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a number of short tears. A novel that pits an Englishman and an Indian Rajah in competition for the girl. Very scarce in jacket. Thomas Seltzer hardcover books
1965rif. 17224New York: Trident 1965. Hardcover. Top front corner of book bumped. DJ has wear at edges. Trident hardcover books
1940rif. 130311Muscatine IA: The Prairie Press 1940. cloth. Prairie Press. 8vo. cloth. 711 pages. Limited to 250 copies. Table of contents. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman. A collection of poetry. Light tanning. The Prairie Press unknown books
1940rif. 130310Muscatine IA: The Prairie Press 1940. cloth. Prairie Press. 8vo. cloth. 711 pages. Limited to 250 copies. Table of contents. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman. A collection of poetry. The Prairie Press unknown books
1976rif. 29754Newark: Transactions of the Delaware Academy of Science 1976. self paper wrappers. 8vo. self paper wrappers. pp.163-188. Reprinted from the Transactions. With illustrations of early maps. Reference to Mrs. Herlihy is a long-time resident of Delaware has been corrected in ink to "native. Transactions of the Delaware Academy of Science unknown books
