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1948Best.-Nr. 330446New York: Limited Editions Club 1948. Limited. hardcover. fine. Miguel Covarrubias. Translated from the Chinese by Pearl S. Buck. With an Introduction by Lin Yutang. 2 volumes 32 hand colored plates & text illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. 688pp. 4to flexibile Oriental bark boards bound stab-sewn with red silk cord; cloth backed red board chemise with printed spine label but lacking outer slipcase.New York: Limited Editions Club 1948. The 14th century masterpiece of Chinese fiction. One of 1500 numbered copies signed by the artist. Limited Editions Club unknown
Best.-Nr. 101962535X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0265857708.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0265795699.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1988Best.-Nr. 305653New York: Henry Holt and Company 1988. hardcover. very good/very good. Illustrated with color paintings throughout. 120 pages 4to gray boards dust wrapper. New York: Henry Holt and Company 1988. Page edges lightly foxed still a very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. In this book the summation of her oeuvre as a painter Perle Hessing provides her own commentary to a selection of her finest work in color. The overall effect is not that of an art book but of a spiritual autobiography in pictures. Henry Holt and Company unknown
Best.-Nr. 1910736988.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1947Best.-Nr. 278026New 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. John Day unknown
1922Best.-Nr. 273972Baltimore 1922. unbound. 1 page 8.5 x 5.5 Baltimore Maryland November 22 1922 to American psychiatrist and staunch Eugenicist Dr. Stewart Paton in full: "I have asked the publishers to send you a copy of my book 'The Biology of Death' which has recently appeared. I hope that you will presently receive it and find it of some interest." Within five years both scientists would come to hate one another with Paton replacing Pearl as the poster boy of Eugenics and the voice of the Eugenics Research Association. Natural folds; fine condition. Pearl rarely comes to market and it speculated that his letters were avoided by collectors due to his anti-Semitism and also the fact that Pearl restricted much of his correspondence to the scientific community. American biologist and father of the controversial science of Eugenics and founder of Biogerontology. He made his case on the world stage with his publication "Breeding Better Men" and delivered the first speech at the very first International Eugenics Congress in London July 1912. In 1927 Pearl shocked the scientific community and his peers at John Hopkins University by renouncing the entire movement. Many thought it too late to correct the damage as he had already endorsed Alexis Carrel's erroneous ideas that "normal cells don%u2019t age" and his own theory for The Rate of Living Hypothesis which enjoyed prominence for nearly 50 years. 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
Best.-Nr. 0259528501.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1906Best.-Nr. 29508London: Fisher Unwin 1906. Beardsley. 8vo pp. 444. Colored picture on the cover by Beardsley. Edges foxed o/w a VG tight copy. The illustration is adapted from the poster design for Unwin's Pseudonym Libraries. Lasner 76c. A novel. Fisher Unwin unknown
1971Best.-Nr. 27938NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971. 8vo pp. 233. Author's presentation on title. A nice copy in little curled and yellowed dj. A memoir--anecdotes and opinions. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich unknown
1971Best.-Nr. B01384New York: John Day Company 1971. First printing of the reprint issue. Signed by Pearl S. Buck on the half-title page. Hardcover 8vo with white cloth spine and red boards. Unread volume in near fine condition only light shelfwear with slightly age-toned pages. Binding tight corners sharp. Price-clipped dust jacket overall very good with minimal wear mostly at the head and foot of the spine. Protected by plastic dust jacket cover. John Day hardcover
1968Best.-Nr. B01385New York: John Day 1968. First edition with no other printings listed. Signed by Pearl S. Buck with inscription on the half-title page. Hardcover 8vo with gold titling to brown cloth spine and boards. Unread volume overall in very good condition with a little wear to head and foot of spine. Binding tight corners sharp. Unclipped dust jacket in very good condition with moderate wear particularly at the corners. Protected in dust jacket cover. John Day hardcover
1950Best.-Nr. 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
1949Best.-Nr. 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
1959Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1944Best.-Nr. 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
1977Best.-Nr. 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
1966Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 0331845946.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2009Best.-Nr. 574371Jackson: University Press of Mississippi 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Small oblong quarto. Fine in fine dust jacket. University Press of Mississippi hardcover
1966Best.-Nr. 549395New York: The John Day Company 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition signed issue distributed by Kroch and Brentano's "First Edition Circle" with their bookmark laid into book. Bookplate and light crease on front fly else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket with two short creased tears. Signed by Buck and Harris and dated in year of publication "June 1966" on second front flyleaf. The John Day Company hardcover
1955Best.-Nr. 549152United States: MCA / Pauline Mayer / John Day 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Advance copy. Pre-publication galley proof consisting of a sample selection of the novel possibly for internal use of the publisher or for submission by author's agent to publisher John Day. Quarto sheets consisting of mimeographed typescript of the first 17 pages of text printed on rectos only pressure-pin bound into later folder. Slight even tanning in text light wear at tips of corners else very good. The final published book Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck was published by John Day in 1956. Possibly unique. MCA / Pauline Mayer / John Day hardcover
