1945réf. 058419New York: The John Day Co. 1945. Book. Illus. by Georg T. Hartman. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tan cloth lettered/illus. in blue. Essentially as issued. Color illus. dust jacket shows a few short closed tears along top edge minor loss at top front panel corner and small chip at head of front joint mild tanning to rear panel and flaps now in mylar. 2nd ptg. 63 pp. illus. The John Day Co. Hardcover

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Yu Lan Flying Boy of China

réf. 025605New York; 1945: The John Day Co. First Edition. Octavo. 60 pages Illustrated by George T. Hartman. An uncommon work of Pearl Buck's. This is the story of a small Chinese boy who saw air planes of the Japanese but one lucky day an American pilot made an emergency landing close to Yu Lan's home and he ran to meet the pilot and the story tells how his friendship with the pilot. Bound in gray pictorial cloth depicting a young boy holding an airplane blue spine lettering blue some toning to covers and endpapers previous owner's name stamped in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with a few closed edge tears chip to foot tape mend to underside light foxing. The John Day Co unknown

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Yu Lan Flying Boy of China

1945réf. 014052New York: The John Day Co. 1945 60 numbered pp 2; HB. Pages: clean bright tight decorative eps frontis; gift inscription ffep verso a.e. lt tanned. Cover: gray navy artwork front navy titles spine; v lt shelfwear dampstain front b.e. sm dampstain back b.e. The John Day Co. hardcover

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Yu Lan. Flying boy of China. Drawings by Georg T. Hartmann.

1945réf. 41180New York: John Day Company 1945. 8vo. 60 4 pp. Illust. title numerous illusts. Gray cloth blue illust. & lettrng w/ d.j. mnr edgewear mnr chppng hd of spine couple clsd tears creasng VG/G copy First edition of one of the author’s scarcest children’s titles set during World War II in Japanese occupied southern China about a young boy’s love of airplanes. John Day Company, hardcover

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Yu Lan: Flying Boy of China

1945réf. SKU2010021521The John Day company 1945. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good/Good. Brief gift inscription by previous owner. The dustjacket has some short tears chipping and edgewear. "The story of a Chinese village lad who loves planes and wants to learn all about them in spite of the traditions his father attempts to teach him. An American pilot during World War II makes a forced landing in a rice field and Yu Lan endears himself to the man by his courage generosity and intelligent curiosity. He is vividly reminded of his own kid brother and determines to help his Chinese friend to get away from the village to study in a big city school for air cadets. He gains the parents' consent by proving to them the need of Chinese pilots in a world of the future. A pleasant direct little story with social values". unobtrusively and charmingly handled. Third and fourth grade level. On of Buck's scarcest titles; uncommon in dustjacket. The John Day company hardcover

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Zurück in den Himmel. Erzählungen aus China Japan u. Amerika. Buck Pearl S.

1977réf. BN598797Krüger 1977. 1977. Softcover. Zurück in den Himmel. Erzählungen aus China Japan u. Amerika. Zurück in den Himmel. Erzählungen aus China Japan u. Amerika. Buck Pearl S. Krüger paperback

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Fighting Angel

1936réf. 36158New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1936. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Slight trace of lightening at the extremities still fine lacking the dustwrapper. The author's uncommon biography of her father an adventurer who traveled throughout China. Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover books

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Imperial Woman. A Novel by Pearl Buck

réf. 6895New York: the John Day Company 1956. Hardcover. 8vo 8.5" x 6" burnt orange cloth decorative gilt title deckled fore-edge. 8 376 pp. First edition. CONDITION: Very good in fair dj with chips tears and losses upper right corner of front flap clipped price of $4.95 present in lower right corner. New York: the John Day Company, 1956 unknown books

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Journey for Life: A Story of Oriental Intrigue

1943réf. 526128New York: Dell Publishing Company 1943. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Cover illustrated by Robert Stanley. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Covers lightly worn and creased spine ends and corners slightly rubbed very good. Issued as Dell Book Number 8. A short story that first appeared in The American Magazine. Dell Publishing Company unknown books

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Pearl Buck Speaks for Democracy

1942réf. 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

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Portrait Of a Marriage

1945réf. 162846L:ondon: Methuen 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Spine faded top edge soiled. Methuen hardcover books

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BUCK, PearlABAA

Poster for China Gold: "Don't Miss Pearl Buck's Powerful New Novel

1942réf. 507941942. Unbound. Fine. Broadside printed on cardstock. Measuring 11" x 16". Very light soiling else fine. Poster reading "Don't Miss Pearl Buck's Powerful New Novel 'China Gold.'" The novel relating "How two young Americans find love in war-torn China" was serialized in Collier's Magazine in 1942 and has never been published in book form except in a German translation. unknown books

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The Chinese Children Next Door

1943réf. 1785London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 36 Essex Street STrand W.C. 2 1943. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Katharine TOZER. WOMAN AUTHOR WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR. Katharine TOZER illustrator. Jas. Truscott & Son Ltd. Printers London E.C.3. First British edition. 8vo; 54pp; blue cloth over board portrait of a Chinese girl dancing on front stamped in red and black black lettering on front and spine; color pictorial endpapers; fp; 14full-page color illustrations; sunning of board bottom edges; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket chipping at head and tail of spine scattered foxing; near fine in very good dj. Pearl Buck 1892-1973 was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries she spent much of her life before 1934 in China with her parents and then her first husband. This is a story of some of her girlhood playmates in China. In later life she became a strong proponent of women's rights and racial equality. Methuen & Co. Ltd, 36 Essex Street, STrand W.C. 2 unknown books

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The Exile / in a special binding

1936réf. 13182The Exile Reynal and Hitchcock / John Day 1936 first edition fine in glassine wraps as issued which exhibit wear tear and chipping. A pre-publication issue with a special binding and Christmas Greetings card for select customers laid in. Reynal and Hitchcock / John Day paperback books

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The Kennedy Women: A Personal Appraisal

1970réf. 463232New York: Cowles Book Company 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Fourth printing. Foxing on the boards thus very good in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Cowles Book Company hardcover books

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The Man who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-sen

1953réf. 458595New York: Random House 1953. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Reprint no additional printings noted but "First Edition" not stated. Octavo. 185pp. Illustrated by Fred Castellon. Fine in a bright very good dustwrapper with a lightly toned spine some edgewear and a few short tears and several unnecessary interior tape reinforcements. Random House hardcover books

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The patriot

19391st edition. VG hbk in blue cloth with faded spine lettering. 15422. eng

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THE PATRIOT

1939réf. 29091NY: John Day 1939. First Edition. 8vo pp. 372. Small worm hole at bottom of a few pages o/w VG in worn dj. John Day unknown books

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Typed Letter Signed

réf. 500070"Pearl S. Buck" in blue fountain pen ink on her "R.D.3" Perkasie Pennsylvania letterhead May 29 1942. 4to 1 page. Creases from mailing else fine. To Edward T. Ingle Northwestern Zone Promotion Manager Treasury Department Washington DC: "My dear Mr. Ingle: Thank you for your letter of May the 26th. I am glad to speak at the Inter-Racial Rally and will do the best I can. Yours sincerely Pearl S. Buck". Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books

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Typed Letter Signed "Pearl S. Buck"

1942réf. 816341942. Unbound. Fine. Typed Letter Signed from Buck dated 25 February 1942 on her New York stationery to an editor stating "Enclosed is something which I would like to say to the colored people of this country. I am sending copies of this letter to colored journals and shall be glad to have you use it if you wish." Whatever was enclosed is no longer present. Fine. Apparently Buck sent several copies of this letter to editors as we have a second copy bound into a copy of her 1942 novel Dragon Seed however all evidence indicates that she did hand sign each one. unknown books

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BUCK, Pearl (translator) (COVARRUBIAS, Miguel)ABAA

ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS SHUI HU CHUAN

1948réf. 022341New York: Limited Editions Club 1948. Hardcover. Fine with the chemise but lacking slipcase. Miguel Covarrubias. Two folio volumes 9-1/4" x 12-1/4" bound in Oriental bark paper in the traditional stab-sewn Chinese style. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias with the plates hand-colored in the studio of Paul Baruch. Calligraphic titles by Jeanyee Wong. Copy #751 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Limited Editions Club hardcover books

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BUCK, Pearl (translator) (COVARRUBIAS, Miguel)ABAA

ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS SHUI HU CHUAN

1948réf. 019922New York: Limited Editions Club 1948. Hardcover. Slight foxing to bulked text edges otherwise about Fine lacking the chemise and slipcase. Miguel Covarrubias. Two folio volumes 9-1/4" x 12-1/4" bound in Oriental bark paper in the traditional stab-sewn Chinese style. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias with the plates hand-colored in the studio of Paul Baruch. Calligraphic titles by Jeanyee Wong. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Limited Editions Club hardcover books

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BUCK, Pearl and Eslanda Goode RobesonABAA

American Argument

1949réf. 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 books