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Best.-Nr. B22736-FMcclain Printing Company. Collectible - Very Good. 1992. Teal blue cloth w/gilt. Stamp to fep 'Pickersgill Sep 2001'. O/w very nice condition. Dust jacket is edgeworn torn and quite scratched. Mcclain Printing Company hardcover books
1974Best.-Nr. 187598New York: Simon & Schuster 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. Later. Very good plus. Hardcover lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners cover and foredges very lightly soiled. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1970Best.-Nr. 98001NY:: John Day Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. Hardcover. Compiled and edited by Theodore F. Harris. First edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 1411718John Day 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed limited edition one of 1000 copies signed by Buck created to honor her 80th birthday. This copy is unnumbered. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. John Day hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 331944New York: John Day 1972. hardcover. very good/very good. Some b/w illustrations. 177 pages. Small 4to natural cloth with black graphic discolored at edges pictorial d.w. chipped at head. New York: John Day 1972. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. John Day unknown books
1953Best.-Nr. 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
1959Best.-Nr. 206405New York: John Day Company 1959. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 317 pages. A later novel from the author of the classic "The Good Earth." A clean and tight near fine copy in blue cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket with only the most minute of wear. A much nicer than usual copy. John Day Company unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 564743New York: The John Day Company 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Foxing on the endpapers and boards about very good in about very good dust jacket with creased internal repairs. Important pianist Claudio Arrau's copy with his ownership signature. The John Day Company hardcover books
1965Best.-Nr. 10284John Day Company 1965. BUCK Pearl S. DEATH IN THE CASTLE. NY: John Day Company 1965. 8vo. green cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Buck's only mystery novel and a bit uncommon. Signed presentation from Buck on the half-title page: "For Patty & Elvin Souder Greetings from Pearl S. Buck. May 5 1965." Fine; minor wear very faint interior stain; price-clipped d/j. $275.00. John Day Company unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 302817London Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1966. 1966. First edition so stated. 8vo. Dust jacket designed by C.W. Bacon unclipped. Very good-fine. 223 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. [1966]. hardcover books
1965Best.-Nr. 4254NY: John Day. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. First edition. Previous owner's name on half-title page else near fine in a very near fine very slight traces of edge wear price clipped dust jacket. A bright attractive copy. . John Day hardcover books
1969Best.-Nr. 526130Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First Swedish edition published in the same year as the American edition. Translated by Lisbeth Renner. Text in Swedish. Spine ends slightly bumped else near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the spine and a bit more on the rear panel and light wear to the extremities else quite bright. Albert Bonniers Forlag hardcover books
1976Best.-Nr. 4283Reinbek b. Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, 1976. 319.-325. tausend 174 Seiten , 18 cm, kartoniert
1936Best.-Nr. 526129Berlin: Paul Zsolnay Verlag 1936. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First German edition published in the same year as the American edition. Translated by Richard Hoffmann. Text in German. Binding very slightly cocked boards lightly faded near fine in a very good dust jacket with a 1/2" chip to the top of the front panel and several shallow chips and tears. Paul Zsolnay Verlag hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 4135Klagenfurt: Hans Kaiser Verlag, o. A. ungekürzte Sonderausgabe 317 Seiten , 19 cm, Pappeinband
1942Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 2344670New York: The John Day Company 1942. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8x5x1. Book club edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minor tears. 1942 Hard Cover. 378 pp. Buck won the Pulitzer in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature the first woman to win the latter. To the Chinese the dragon is not an evil creature but is a god and the friend of men who worship him. He "holds in his power prosperity and peace." Ruling the waters and the winds he sends the good rain is hence the symbol of fecundity. In the Hsia dynasty two dragons fought a great duel until both disappeared leaving only a fertile foam from which were born the descendants of the Hsia. Thus the dragons came to be looked upon as the ancestors of a race of heroes. This is the story of China at War. The John Day Company hardcover books
1942Best.-Nr. 558130New York: The John Day Company 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. 378pp. Binding slightly cocked the spine gilt a bit tarnished near fine in a rubbed good only dust jacket with a sunned spine a couple long tears with a three inch tear on the rear panel chips and creases along the edges. The John Day Company hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 2330635New York: The John Day Company 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8x5x1. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips and small tears. Endpaper gutters lightly soiled. 1942 Hard Cover. 378 pp. Buck won the Pulitzer in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature the first woman to win the latter. To the Chinese the dragon is not an evil creature but is a god and the friend of men who worship him. He "holds in his power prosperity and peace." Ruling the waters and the winds he sends the good rain is hence the symbol of fecundity. In the Hsia dynasty two dragons fought a great duel until both disappeared leaving only a fertile foam from which were born the descendants of the Hsia. Thus the dragons came to be looked upon as the ancestors of a race of heroes. This is the story of China at War. The John Day Company hardcover books
1942Best.-Nr. 242030New York: John Day Co 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good in good dust jacket. Hardcover rubbed at spine ends and corners soiled and worn. Dustwrapper rubbed and chipped with tape repair at spine ends torn at corners soiled and worn faded spine. John Day Co hardcover books
1943Best.-Nr. 167841New York: Sun Dial 1943. Hardcover. Good/Good. Later. Good in good dust jacket. /. Cloth and dust jacket faded rubbed/ dust jacket chipped lightly stained. Sun Dial hardcover books
1959Best.-Nr. 8593Bern: Scherz Verlag, 1959. Lizenzausgabe 231 Seiten , 19 cm, Gewebeeinband
1937Best.-Nr. 71702Copenhagen: Jespersen og Pios Forlag 1937. Hardcover. Fine. First edition thus. Fine in quarter leather over marbled paper. Danish translation of Fighting Angel. Jespersen og Pios Forlag hardcover books
1947Best.-Nr. 303458New York John Day Company 1947. 1947. First edition. 8vo. Dust jacket unclipped; few nicks and short tears spine slightly faded. Very good. Advance copy for review with publisher's slip laid in loose with publication date of November 13. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, John Day Company [1947]. hardcover books
1936Best.-Nr. 225767New York: John Day 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Later. Very good later edition hardcover with Good dust jacket. The book has shelf rub of spine ends along with front endpaper is missing. The text is clean. The dust jacket has minor wear and tear of all panel edges along with light browning panels. John Day hardcover books
