Buck, Pearl SABAA
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1936rif. 9031083New York: John Day Reynal & Hitchcock 1936. Advance Reading Copy. Hardcover. Fine. With Reynal & Hitchcock card laid in. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spine and covers stamped in green and spine stamped in gilt. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. 302 pages. John Day, Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover books
1981rif. 162968New York: United Press International 1981. Vintage press photograph of "The Showdown" the professional boxing match between Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns on September 16 1981. Printed mimeo snipe and United Press International stamp on the verso. Leonard would emerge the world welterweight champion after 14 rounds. The duo would meet again in a rematch eight years later on June 12 1989. From the archive of the PIX Agency an American photo house that acted as an intermediary between emigre photographers as well as those still living in Europe and the American magazine and newspaper market between 1935-1969. 8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine. United Press International unknown books
1944rif. 159172Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1944. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1944 film. With mimeo snipes on the versos. Based on the 1942 novel by Pearl S. Buck. During the Second Sino-Japanese War a small Chinese village is invaded by the Japanese Imperial Army. One woman decides to stand up to the Japanese and her defiance soon spreads to the other villagers. Set in China shot on location in Calabasas and Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1968rif. 61062New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1968. First Edition. First printing. Boldly signed in black ink on front endpaper with signed photo also signed laid in. Octavo. Orange cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 206pp; illus. Fine in lightly rubbed priced clipped dustwrapper Near Fine. A lovely copy nicely signed. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
1939rif. 61177New York: The John Day Company 1939. First Edition. Advance Issue one of an unspecified number of copies signed by Buck on the front endpaper and sent with "Dear Bookseller" letters roughly a month prior to publication with the compliments of The John Day Company. Octavo 22cm; black cloth with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; publisher's slipcase; ii45-593pp with a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Touch of dust-soil to cloth else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $1.50 lightly edgeworn with some light surface wear and a diagonal crease to rear flap; Very Good in like slipcase. Buck's Nobel Lecture in which she discusses the origins of the great novels of China and maintains "that it is the Chinese and not the western novel which has shaped her own efforts in writing." from front flap. The John Day Company unknown books
1950rif. 158441Buenos Aires: Industia Argentina 1950. Vintage one sheet poster for the Argentinean release of the 1951 film the film's country of origin and whose premiere preceded the US release by more than three months. Richard Wright accepted an offer to star as the leading man in the film adaptation of his own novel after initial choice Canada Lee was stuck in South African customs after shooting "Cry the Beloved Country" 1951. Lee had starred in Orson Welles' prior stage adaptation. Set in Chicago and shot on location in Chicago and Argentina. 29 x 43.25 inches folded as issued. With a few small closed tears and creases at the extremities else Near Fine. Bright and unfaded. Industia Argentina unknown books
1924rif. 150975New York: Theatre Owners Distributing 1924. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1924 French silent film seen here under its US title "Perils of Paris" showing actress Pearl White in riding garb perched on a railing. White's last film ending a two-decade career in films. During her Hollywood heyday the actress appeared as the plucky heroine in a number of popular serials most notably the Pathe production "The Perils of Pauline" in 1914. Unlike many of her contemporaries White performed most of her own stunts including flying airplanes racing cars long-distance swims and similar feats. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good lightly toned overall. Theatre Owners Distributing unknown books
1932rif. 47046New York: John Day Company 1932. First Trade Edition. Octavo 21cm.; publisher's brown cloth in yellow and red decorative dust jacket red topstain; 6467pp.; pictorial endpapers printed in red. Crown gently nudged some pinpoint wear to gilt titling on spine else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 gently spine-sunned and lightly dusty with light wear to extremities and a few closed tears along upper edge; Very Good. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf: "For Mrs. Oppenheim / Pearl S. Buck." Addtionally laid in are several pieces of ephemera and correspondence from the office of Laurent Oppenheim including two sheet of pencil notes on Plaza Hotel notepaper beginning with the mention of "Pearl Buck -Radio - Feb 20"; a mimeographed postcard announcing the opening of the Family Planning Center by the American Birth Control League at 701 Fifth Avenue; and an autograph note signed to Oppenheim from a Sheila Fry thanking her for an invitation to lunch at which she was to be introduced to Buck. Provenance: Inscribed to philanthropist Mrs. Laurent Oppenheim 1878-1955 née Amy Ruth Schwartz founder of the School Art League in New York City. John Day Company unknown books
1949rif. 20869New 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
1942rif. 28976New York: Common Council for American Unity 1942. First Edition. Octavo 22.75cm; yellow and black printed wrappers stapled; 120pp; illus. Starting oxidation to staples with faint dustiness to wrappers; Near Fine. Highly important single issue of the CCAU's monthly literary magazine issued from 1940-49 which was devoted to bridging ethnic and minority differences and to reflecting America's cultural diversity. This issue includes a substantial 13pp short story by Woody Guthrie "Ear Players" which marked his debut as a published writer in the mainstream media. The issue includes contributions by Langston Hughes Waldo Frank and Eleanor Roosevelt among others. Also includes a pictorial insert 4pp of photomontage by Alexander Alland. REUSS 30 p.9. Common Council for American Unity unknown books
1978rif. 137711Brooklyn NY: Self published 1978. Draft script for an unproduced three-act play called "The Council in Hell" written by Pearl Wiesen adapted from Books I and II of John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost." Brief annotations throughout in manuscript ink. Red wrappers with title and address labels on the front wrapper. Title page present dated 1978 with a credit for Wiesen. 58 leaves with last leaf of text being page 16 of Act III. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound internally with three gold brads. Self published unknown books
2003rif. 9021148New York: Random House 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original black paper over boards spine stamped in gilt. Random House hardcover books
2006rif. 9020399New York: Random House 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original burgundy paper over boards spine stamped in gilt. Random House hardcover books
1994rif. 9013624Jackson: University Press Of Mississippi 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney. Includes bibliographical references and index. University Press Of Mississippi hardcover books
1999rif. 55804Athens Georgia: Hill Street Press 1999. First edition. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. Signed limited edition of this tribute published on the occasion of Welty's 90th birthday signed by all contributors - and though not called for additionally inscribed by Welty herself. 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original full green textured cloth with gilt titles. In dark green full cloth slipcase. No jacket as issued. Marbled endpapers. 14 iv 118 2 12 signature pages 2 colophon pages phew. One of 226 copies signed by editor and all 22 contributors Richard Bausch Doris Betts Fred Chappell Ellen Douglas Tony Early Clyde Edgerton George Garrett Ellen Gilchrist Anthony Grooms Barry Hannah Mary Hood Greg Johnson William Maxwell Willie Morris Alice Munro Daniele Pitavy-Souques Reynolds Price Louis D. Rubin Jr. Lee Smith William Jay Smith Elizabeth Spencer and Richard Wilbur phew again this #34. Though not called for this copy additionally inscribed on the title page by Welty: "Eudora Welty / To Doctor Jim Lucas / with best wishes." Limitation sticker to slipcase. Spine cloth a bit faded. Else clean and sound. Hill Street Press unknown books
1988rif. 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 books
1891rif. 50232Chicago IL: Western Pearl Co 1891. Very Good. Chicago IL: Western Pearl Co. 1891. First Edition. Octavo; stapled self-wrappers; 31 1pp. Photographs and illustrations. Rubbing and mild smudging to wraps; binding sound; Very Good. Uncommon pamphlet bribing kids to work selling Western Prince Double Strength Baking Powder to get a brand new "free" bike. Includes testimonials and photographs of kids with their new bicycles and references state by state. 150 cans at 40 cents each did the trick. We find no copies in retail and two holdings in OCLC at Indiana and Brown. Western Pearl Co unknown books
1925rif. 376370New York: Brentano's 1925. 24 pp. 8vo. Printed self wrappers quite worn. Interior Fine correction to p. 9. 24 pp. 8vo. Patience Worth the spirit of a woman who supposedly lived in the late 17th century in Dorsetshire England and immigrated to America before being killed by Native Americans began communicating with Pearl Leonore Curran of Mound City Illinois in 1913. Patience gave inspiration through a ouija board and in the form of vivid pictorial visions. This collaboration between spirit and human woman produced several novels prose and poetry of which this is a collection. Inscription to the front wrapper reads "With best wishes To Dr. . from . E. L. Beach 175 E 80th St." And with seemingly more divined poetry "From Patience I in ing have poured this wine within a cup. Let those who hath thirst - drink. For the self shall be as the peace upon his soul. And the goblet shall ne'er run dry." In keeping with much of the religious undertones to Patience's poetry this passage recalls John 4:14 "whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." An Easter Greeting is an anthology of verse poetry with interjections by Patience in something approximating what a 17th century rural woman would sound like "Haed I a pettiskirt wi' a proper frill / I'd sit on a throne fit for a princess." A rare product of the spirit realm. Brentano's unknown books
1962rif. 230091Published in New York: Pocket Books 1962. 12 pp. on rectos of blank paper. 1 vols. 4to. Fine. 12 pp. on rectos of blank paper. 1 vols. 4to. The title story of her 1962 collection HEARTS COME HOME AND OTHER STORIES. Set in China the story deals with the conflict between modernity and tradition in one Chinese family. Pocket Books unknown books
1930rif. 3462791930. Single leaf announcement folded twice to make three panels; 3 newspaper clippings; staple-bound periodical 84 pg.; staple-bound periodical 13 pg. x2; unbound pamphlet unpaginated x2; bookmark-style handbill x2; single leaf folded newspaper clipping reproduction; typescript carbon leaves with manuscript annotations 11 pg. x2. A near fine collection. Single leaf announcement folded twice to make three panels; 3 newspaper clippings; staple-bound periodical 84 pg.; staple-bound periodical 13 pg. x2; unbound pamphlet unpaginated x2; bookmark-style handbill x2; single leaf folded newspaper clipping reproduction; typescript carbon leaves with manuscript annotations 11 pg. x2. Pearl S. Buck b.1892 - d.1973 was the daughter of American missionaries to China and an author whose 1931 novel 'The Good Earth' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938 Buck won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her books 'The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother' and 'Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul' memoirs about her mother and father respectively. Buck's life was defined by her advocacy for the people of China and shifting western perceptions about that part of the world. This collection has several items pertaining to her early recognition on the heels of her Pulitzer Prize when a luncheon was held for her in New York at the Hotel Astor in 1932. There she gave her famous speech "Is There a Case for Foreign Missions" At the end the the audience appeared confused and speechless. Initially no one clapped or congratulated her and Buck later recalled after a few painful moments a storm of applause arose but by then her publisher was abruptly escorting her from the room. Inlcuded here is: 'Luncheon in Honor of Pearl S. Buck at the Hotel Astor November 2nd 1932' listing of guests and their table numbers. Pearl S. Buck is listed as Mrs. J. Lossing Buck her first husband's name at the speaker's table. Press clippings- "WANTS BETTER MISSIONARIES." World-Tel. November 3 1932 "Mission Worker Abroad Vexes Mrs. Pearl Buck" New York Herald-Tribune November 3 1932 "Mrs. Buck on Foreign Missions" New York City Mirror November 4 1932 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Science Bulletin November 2 1935. Announcement of Pearl S. Buck's lecture on December 3 'Fiction and the Front Page' pg. 79. "What About India" A transcribed conversation between Pearl S. Buck T.A. Raman Louis Fischer and Bertrand Russell. The American Forum of the Air Vol. 4 No. 41. October 11 1942 x2 'The New Children' fund-raising pamphlet. The Pearl S. Buck Foundation ca. 1970s x2 "Amerasians" Bookmark-style red solicitation mailer. The Pearl S. Buck Foundation ca. 1970s x2 Reproduction of a press clipping 'Pearl Buck's Presence Lingers On.' The Philadelphia Inquirer February 16 1975 Printed as a pamphlet. The Spearhead. By Pearl S. Buck. typescript essay carbon copy annotated in ink in the hand of Pearl S. Buck undated. unknown books
1903rif. 310078Biarritz 1903. 1 page. 8vo. Bifolium of Grand Hotel lined stationery. Some minor creasing old folds. 1 page. 8vo. A chatty letter from the Anglo-American novelist and dramatist John Oliver Hobbes written under her real name to her parents. "The motor is still in Paris being 'repaired' but we go on to Madrid tonight . We want to be there for Whitsun: then to Seville Cordova Granada Barcelona & so forth! . It would be impossible to travel with kinder people than the Cotes'. She is very fond of reading & quiet and I work a good deal in her sitting-room. unknown books
rif. 310160Steephill Castle Ventnor Isle of Wight n.d. 1 page. 12mo. Bifolium personal stationery. Fine. 1 page. 12mo. The Anglo-American novelist and dramatist known as "John Oliver Hobbes" writes to her uncle under her real name. "I decided to open the enclosed as I thought it might be wise to write to you at once if you were not too late for the list. unknown books
1946rif. 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
rif. 40574Pen and ink on paper. 1 vols. 8-1/2 x 6 inches. Marginal binding holes else fine. Pen and ink on paper. 1 vols. 8-1/2 x 6 inches. Inscription reads "To Alfred Eisenstaedt-with appreciation Pearl S. Buck. October 18 1956. unknown books
1971rif. 83131Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall 1971. First edition. 263 pp w/ring record. Faint splash marks on top edge else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Dated 91 and INSCRIBED by Moore opposite the title page. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall unknown books
