PAYNE, Robert (Pearl S Buck)Biblio.com
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1950rif. 502572New York: The John Day Company 1950. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Pearl S. Buck. A fine copy in very good dust jacket faded on the spine but else quite bright. An account of a mass murder in Camden New Jersey in 1949 in which thirteen men women and children were murdered. The John Day Company hardcover
1949rif. 437867New York: John Day Company 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 206pp. Spine lettering rubbed very good in very good price-clipped dust jacket with modest chipping mostly at the spine ends. A dialogue and debate about America between Nobel Prize-winner Buck and Robeson anthropologist author and the wife of Paul Robeson. Warmly Inscribed by Robeson: "For Harry Marinski sic: It will be great fun if you are my next collaborator. Sincerely Essie. Enfield Conn. Mar. 1949." The recipient is likely Harry Marinsky a Russian émigré artist watercolorist and art editor at two popular magazines. John Day Company hardcover
1959rif. 43632Tucson: Arizona Silhouettes 1959. 1959. ARIZONA MORMON. First edition. 8vo. Brown cloth titles stamped in gold gilt on the front cover and spine map on front and rear pastedown sheet 6 viii 4 304 pp. frontispiece portrait of David King Udall foreword illustrated from photographs portraits appendices index. The story of one of Arizona's most distinguished pioneer families and at the same time a broad chapter in the history of Mormons that dedicated religious group that had much to do with the pioneering of the state. Udall was called to Arizona in 1880 became bishop of St. John's Ward 1880-1887 President of St. Johns Stake 1887-1922 plural marriage imprisoned in Detroit etc. A fine bright square copy in a fine bright dust jacket. Arizona Silhouettes, 1959. hardcover
rif. SKU1012434Samuel Wood 362 Pearl Street New York. PAPERBACK. Original 1807 Edition; The Picture Alphabet for Little Children contains alphabets with woodcuts illustrating objects; 16 pages total including covers with 2 letters to a page; Size: 3" x 2 inches; cover is loose at the lower edge of spine; a few spots to cover; This work has the distinction of being one of the first publications issued by Samuel Wood who would go on to a distinguished career in the American publishing trade; Very Scarce . Very Good. Samuel Wood, 362 Pearl Street, New York paperback
1944rif. 63206E-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
1977rif. 586767Peterborough New Hampshire: Windy Row Press 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Binding lightly cocked crown slightly bumped boards with a touch of foxing very good in a lightly soiled very good dust jacket with slight tanning particularly to the spine a bit of wear at the crown and a few small chips and tears. Signed by Doug Rook. Poetry. Windy Row Press hardcover
1966rif. 569274New York: John Day Company 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a very slightly rubbed else about fine dust jacket. One of 500 numbered copies retained by The Pearl S. Buck Foundation Signed by both by Buck and Harris. This is copy "A 20" which we surmise was a copy for presentation by the authors. John Day Company hardcover
rif. 0331845946.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2009rif. 574371Jackson: University Press of Mississippi 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small oblong quarto. Fine in fine dust jacket. University Press of Mississippi hardcover
1966rif. 500384New York: The John Day Company 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 221pp. Cloth. Binding is dull and lightly soiled rubbed at the extremities else very good lacking the dust jacket. Signed by Pearl S. Buck and Theodore F. Harris on second front flyleaf and dated in year of publication "June 1966". Pearl S. Buck won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature. The John Day Company hardcover
1936rif. 526126New 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
1966rif. 462911New York: John Day Company 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in modestly rubbed else near fine dustwrapper. Copy number 306 of 500 numbered copies retained by The Pearl S. Buck Foundation Signed by both by Buck and Harris. John Day Company hardcover
1952rif. 429619New York: Comet Press Books 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Cover by Pearl Edler. Octavo. 204pp. Very good in brown cloth gilt boards with some light dampspots in good dustwrapper foxing to the front board and light wear. Novel of a talented black woman from the South who inherits a fortune from a white woman but realizes money does not buy happiness. OCLC locates no copies. Comet Press Books hardcover
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
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
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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
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
2019rif. 2-6200269408LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing 2019. Paperback. New. 112 pages. 8.66x5.91x0.26 inches. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing paperback
1940rif. 133128Dunellen NJ: Dell Publishing 1940. Vol. 20 No. 5. Softcover. Very good . 106 p. 29 cm. Numerous b&w illustrations. Colour ads inside covers. Light wear around spine. Articles about Rosalind Russell Bette Davis etc. List of 350 actors with their previous occupation first feature-length film favorite sport hobby and address. Dell Publishing paperback
2017rif. __1495060411Hal Leonard Corp 2017. Hardcover. New. box deluxe edition. 240 pages. 11.50x8.25x2.00 inches. Hal Leonard Corp hardcover
1949rif. 009033London: Theodore Brun 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. No.25 in a limited 'de luxe' edition of 750 published for The Collector's Book Club and appearing simultaneously with the Methuen first edition. Signed by Buck. Light toning to stock but otherwise all in VG clean and bright internal order. Black silk bookmark. Full black leather with bright gilt decoration to front and titling to spine. Light edgewear only to boards and one minor bump. A nice copy of a scarce item. 8vo. 314pp Theodore Brun hardcover
1963rif. 20-007From the jacket front flap: "The Living Reed tells the story of a close-knit family who dedicate themselves to the salvation of their homeland that tiny peninsula hanging like a golden fruit before the longing eyes of surrounding nations. The reader lives with them from the splendid era of Queen Min to the climactic days of the Second World War." This 8th Impression dedicated copy was inscribed on by Pearl S. Buck on her 84th birthday on June 26 1971. She died on March 6 1973. John Day Company hardcover
1954rif. 8129H81218NY: John Day. Signed by author on half title page. 13th printing. Edgewear to dj. . Good. Hardcover. 1954. John Day hardcover
