BUCK, Pearl SABAA
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1945réf. 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
1957réf. 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
1969réf. 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
1942réf. 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
1950réf. 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
1975réf. 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
1950réf. 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
1992réf. 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
1925réf. 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
1965réf. 17224New York: Trident 1965. Hardcover. Top front corner of book bumped. DJ has wear at edges. Trident hardcover books
1940réf. 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
1940réf. 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
1976réf. 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
réf. 26708Green River UT: Canyonlands Gifts & Books. Spiral Bound. 60pp. Quarto 28 cm Black plastic spiral binding with gray and black illustrated wraps. Very good. The covers are very slightly soiled and discolored. A fictional story of creation and the afterlife as viewed by the Native Americans of Utah. Canyonlands Gifts & Books unknown books
1951réf. 100172New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc 1951. cloth. 8vo. cloth. xi 239 pages. First edition. Includes sections on library facilities and kinds of geologic literature. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Label on spine and embossed library stamp on title page card pocket removed from rear pastedown. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc unknown books
1997réf. 614874New York: Avon Books 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good ex-library copy with usual library markings in a very good dust jacket with toning. Author's first novel. Avon Books hardcover books
1958réf. 1338804New Haven CT: Monocle 1958. Saddle-stitched. Octavo 48 pages. In Good plus condition housed in a plastic sleeve. White and black decorated covers saddle-stiched pamphlet. Mild shelf wear including edgewear and scattered staining to covers; small closed tears along head and fore-edge of front cover; age-toning and staining to text block; light age-toning and occasional staining to interior pages text remains clear and legible. Shelved in Case 0. 1338804. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Monocle unknown books
2005réf. 117594New York: One World/Ballantine 2005. Hardcover. 292p. first printing very good condition in like dust jacket. One World/Ballantine hardcover books
1991réf. 337918Cuba: Federación de Mujeres Cubanas 1991. Pamphlet. 32p. 7 stapled in wraps with some wear and handling pages toned otherwise in very good condition. Text entirely in Spanish. Estudios de la mujer. Report on Cuban campesina women and their participation in agricultural cooperatives based on an investigation from 1987 to 1990. Scarce only two copies on OCLC as of 8/2025. Federación de Mujeres Cubanas unknown books
1991réf. 29225New York: Simon & Schuster 1991. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon & Schuster 1991. First Edition with full number line. Quarto; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; 527pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and board extremities a hint of dust-soil to textblock margins else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title page. Offered together with publisher's promotional author photograph which Meyer has also inscribed and signed in red sharpie. She has also adorably added a devil's horn and goatee to her portrait. Simon & Schuster unknown books
1931réf. 013633NY: The John Day Company 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first issue with "flees" for "fleas" on page 100 line 17. Very nice copy lacking dustjacket. No names inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus. The John Day Company hardcover books
1954réf. 535083Columbia Records 1954. Unbound. Fine. 7" 45 RPM vinyl record. Fine record in a very good pictorial cardboard sleeves with toning and rubbing. Columbia extended play record B-1651. Side A: That's Good Enough for Me Ma!; Side B: Tired Row Row Row. Columbia Records unknown books
1953réf. 1400403New York: The John Day Company 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 311 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering clipped front flap. Spine green with off-white lettering. Exterior has moderate wear including modest age toning to the rear/flaps rubbing to the joints slight soiling and few chips to the head/tail edges. Boards have light wear including faint sunning and light edge wear with a small chip to the tail spine edge. Cocked spine. Text block has modest wear including age toning to the edges with deckled fore edge. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column T ND-T. 1400403. FP New Rockville Stock. The John Day Company hardcover books
1895réf. 335524Boston MA: Sarah E. Holmes 1895. Paperback. 166p 6x8.5 inch red wraps; head and tail of spine worn down to the binding and minor notes and underlining by a previous owner on pages 7-8 otherwise in very good condition. Full subtitle: "The true constitution of government in the sovereignty of the individual as the final development of Protestantism democracy and socialism." Andrews an individualist anarchist co-founded the Modern Times colony. An anti-Marxist affiliate of the First International he wrote speeches and articles for Victoria Woodhull. Johnpoll. Sarah E. Holmes paperback books
1934réf. 32897New York: John Day Company 1934. Very Good/Very Good. New York: John Day Company 1934. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; publisher's cloth yellow topstain in yellow and red price-clipped dust jacket; 302pp. Moderate wear and dust-soil to jacket spine panel rather toned long closed tear to front spine edge not quite touching text corners bumped else a Very Good copy. John Day Company unknown books
