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1945réf. 540289New York: John Day 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 128pp. Contemporary owner signature and date on front fly with light offsetting on front endpapers binding slightly cocked topedge a trifle foxed very good in an about very good dust jacket with chips and tears and a modestly toned spine. John Day hardcover
1955réf. 234770New York. : The John Day Company. 1955. First edition. . Decorated hard cover. . Fine copy in near fine very light shelf wear dust jacket in mylar. . Octavo. . Illustrated Boston. Kurt Werth. Very scarce in this condition. The John Day Company. hardcover
1965réf. 200931New York: The John Day Company 1965. First edition. Hardcover. A charming children's book from the author of "The Good Earth." Features illustrations by Mamoru Funai. A near fine copy in cloth boards but with some slight publisher paper defects to the bottom edge of the first few pages and in a near fine price clipped dust jacket dust jacket with the price still present on the top of the front flap and with the publisher sticker to the spine/front panel. A very nice copy of a seemingly fairly uncommon book. The John Day Company unknown
1965réf. 4792New York NY: The John Day Company 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good . Mamoru Funai. 8vo 21 x 14 cm. 5 47 1 pp. Blue cloth covers with red titles to upper and spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ with publisher sticker to front panel. Lower front corner clipped price $2.95 still present to upper corner. In Mylar. The John Day Company hardcover
1948réf. 12754New York: The John Day Company 1948. Third impression. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 61. Illustrated with prints by Hiroshige and Hokusai. Blue cloth spine lettered in blue. Toning to spine staining to boards with cup rings. Inscribed "To __ with my love Pearl S. Buck" A story of two Japanese boys learning courage and hope after tragedy. One of the more popular stories about the Orient written for children. The John Day Company hardcover
1973réf. Q-0381999238HarperCollins 1973-01-21. Library Binding. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! HarperCollins unknown
1986réf. Q-0064401715HarperCollins 1986-04-18. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! HarperCollins paperback
1986réf. Q-0808572725Turtleback Books 1986-04-18. School & Library Binding. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Turtleback Books unknown
réf. 97905Theodore Brun. London/The Collector's Book Club. 1949. Theodore Brun. In conjunction with The Collector's Book Club. 1949. This Limited De Luxe Edition appeared simultaneously with Methuen's first edition. LIMITED TO 750 COPIES ONLY SIGNED BY BUCK on open page after the half-title page. This is copy number 152. Bound in full black morocco gilt top edge of pages gilt. Marbled endpapers. Boards slightly marked. Inner hinge very slightly visible by signature page otherwise a clean and sound copy. hardcover
réf. 041622220X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1950réf. ABE-1672392554721The John Day Company 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author. Very Good. 1950 The John Day Company. Third Impression. 62 pp. Signed by Pearl S. Buck on book plate on FFEP. Blue hardcover with silver lettering. Sound binding clean pages. Moderate foxing to cover pastedowns and endpages. Rub to corners with otherwise moderate wear. The John Day Company hardcover
1992réf. Q-0933149492Woodbine House 1992-09-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Woodbine House paperback
1939réf. 007074New York: The John Day Company 1939 Very nice copy in clean dust jacket. SIGNED by Buck on first page. Very mild rubbing along dust jacket spine mostly at top and bottom. The John Day Company hardcover
1942réf. 13428John Day Company 1942. Twelfth Printing. hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. 9x6x0. Dust jacket has significant tears and chips soiling darkened spine price unclipped - poor condition. Yellow cloth boards have light rubbing at extremities clean interior. Library edition 12th printing. Pearl Buck drew on her own childhood to write this children's book about an American child in China. Ages 5-7. All orders packed with care most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve independent bookseller since 2011 John Day Company hardcover
1942réf. 823New York: The John Day Company 1942. Ninth Impression. Cloth. Good. Oblong 12mo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. Red cloth with black titling. Lacking dust jacket. Light soiling to cloth chipping at spine ends mainly head. Binding shaken but sturdy. Faint discoloration to endpapers. Bright red and black illustrations throughout. An American mother tells the story of her childhood growing up in China and the neighboring family's efforts to finally produce a son after having six daughters. The John Day Company unknown
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
1939réf. 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
1942réf. 501445New York: John Day 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Drawings by William Arthur Smith. Boards quite stained a good only copy in moderately stained good or better dust jacket. Inscribed by Buck on front fly: "For Gladys Rosa Watkins and I hope you like the Chinese children. Pearl S. Buck." Additionally Inscribed by the artist incorporating a Chinese chop mark: "To Gladys. Happiness to you forever! Bill. William Arthur Smith. March 4 1943." A very uncommon children's book. John Day hardcover
1943réf. 92544Methuen & Co. London. 1943. Methuen. 1943. First edition. DW. Slim square 8vo. Illustrated boards and endpapers. Colour illustrations. Gift inscription to half-title. Edges of boards sunned pages slightly browned otherwise a clean and sound copy in wrapper that is slightly browned and worn with a small close tear and creases to top corner of rear panel. hardcover
1946réf. 152848London: Methuen 1946. 3rd edition. Nice copy. small quarto. hardback with dust jacket 54pp. illusts. Nice copy of the British edition in blue boards decorated in red & black in a nice price-clipped wrap-around dust jacket by Katherine Tozer. Very uncommon in this condition Methuen hardcover
1939réf. 308048New York: John Day 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The lecture given by Buck on accepting the Nobel Prize for literature. She was the third American after Sinclair Lewis and Eugene O'Neill and fourth woman after Selma Lagerof Grazia Deledda and Sigrid Undset to win the prize. Buck whose best-known novel The Good Earth is set in China uses the Nobel pulpit to discuss Chinese fiction a little considered subject at the time. It wasn't until 2012 that a Chinese writer—Mo Yan—was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. 59 pages. First edition first printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a snag on the back panel resulting in a narrow band of creasing and some tears. Bookplate on the front pastedown. In a very good slipcase with some wear to the corners. This copy is one of an unspecified number signed by Buck and issued in a slipcase. It is possible that none of the signed copies were for sale. This one comes with a letter from the publisher addressed "Dear Bookseller" that reads "We take pleasure in sending you with our compliments a personal advance copy of The Chinese Novel." The letter goes on to promote a forthcoming Chinese novel Moment in Peking by Lin Yutang. This book is not common with the slipcase and letter. John Day hardcover
1942réf. 5619John Day. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. Former school library with stamp inside front cover and card pocket inside back cover. Illustrated white and red boards black titling. Solid binding moderate shelfwear head and tail of spine and corners bumped. Light surface soil. Clean unmarked pages. Drawings by William Arthur Smitth. ; 9 X 6 X 1 inches; 62 pages . John Day hardcover
1939réf. 96291New York: John Day Company 1939. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a light rubbed near fine price-clipped dustwrapper lacking the cardboard slipcase. John Day Company hardcover
1939réf. 000115New York: The John Day Co. 1939. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in Near Fine jacket; signed by author. Slipcase also present. See scans and description. New York: The John Day Company 1939. First Edition signed by the author uninscribed on the ffep. Thin octavo 59 pp. Black cloth binding with gilt imprinting black and gold jacket. Fine book in Near Fine jacket showing only light peripheral wear. Unclipped still bearing the $ 1.50 1939 price. The very scarce slipcase is also present albeit with detached spine; slipcase otherwise quite perfect. See all scans. One of Buck's scarcest. The Chinese Novel is Buck's Nobel Lecture delivered at the Swedish Academy upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Buck the first of just two American women to win the prize points out the distinct nature of the Chinese novel the quintessential grass-roots form which comes from and lives within the Chinese common people whose tea house and farming villages are the roots of the stories contained therein. She also predicted - correctly - that her own adherence to this form would cause her to fall out of the critical limelight in time. With the slipcase hard to replace. Provenance provided to purchaser. L12n The John Day Co. hardcover
réf. 2338641New York: John Day Company 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x8x0. Magagna Anna Marie. First edition. Includes original jacket. Ink gift note on front endpaper endpapers lightly foed and toned bottom corner of front jacket flap clipped a couple closed jacket tears and a 1/2 inch abrasion along top edge small tape repair and 1/4 inch chip along rear jacket edges. 1960 Hard Cover. 42 pp. Pictorial boards not the less desirable blue cloth library binding. Illustrations by Anna Marie Magagna. A Christmas story for young readers by the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning The Good Earth and other novels. Buck was also the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. John Day Company hardcover
