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1972Best.-Nr. 60067NY:: John Day Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. First edition number 1062 of 5000 copies retained by the author for presentation. SIGNED by the author. Previous owner's gift inscription on front paste-down else very good in a very good age toning to flaps and rear panel price clipped dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 51789NY:: John Day Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
1972Best.-Nr. 569283New York: John Day Company 1972. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Limited edition. Illustrations by Donald Lizzul. Quarto. Quarter pebble-grained white cloth and red velvet over boards. A bit of rubbing at the bottom of the boards else near fine in price-clipped else near fine dust jacket. Copy number 252 of five thousand copies retained by the author for presentation this copy is Signed. Additionally Inscribed and initialed by Buck to Byron and Nancy Keeble: "For By and Nancy my good wishes." A handsome copy. John Day Company hardcover books
1960Best.-Nr. 7981Reibbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, 1960. 439.- . tausend 151 Seiten , 18
1957Best.-Nr. UBUCOST00ajsPaul Zsolnay Verlag 1957. Very Good. Buck Pearl S. Ostwind-Westwind. Hamburg: Paul Zsolnay Verlag 1957. 241pp. 12mo. Red cloth with gilt embossed spine. Book condition: Very good. Former owner's name in ink on front free endsheet. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with rubbing bumping and chipping. Short tear in rear edge and slight soiling. Paul Zsolnay Verlag hardcover books
1946Best.-Nr. 261586New York: Day 1946. Very Good. Very good. Corners bent. Edges of spine slightly bumped. Light stain on back cover. Day unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 44002Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg Fischer Bücherei KG, 1961. 51.-62. Tausend 214 Seiten , 18 cm, kartoniert
1948Best.-Nr. 193269Toronto Ontario Canada: Longman Green and Co 1948. First Canadian edition and first printing. Hardcover. 312 pages. Another novel from the Nobel Prize winning author of "The Good Earth." A clean and tight near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very good plus dust jacket with a few edge tears and minor wear. Longman, Green and Co unknown books
1948Best.-Nr. 101559NY:: John Day Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. First edition. Very good in a very good minor edge wear with a few clear tape rapairs on verso age toning dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
1945Best.-Nr. 502951Toronto: Longmans Green & Company 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Canadian edition. Illustrated by Charles Hargens. Brief gift inscription boards lightly soiled corners and spine ends slightly bumped very good in a good only dust jacket with a large 2" chip to bottom of front panel affecting text a 1" chip to top of rear panel 1" loss at spine ends and a few other small chips and tears. A wartime novel based on her brother Edgar’s disastrous first marriage which should be distinguished from his disastrous second marriage. Longmans Green & Company hardcover books
1945Best.-Nr. 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
1964Best.-Nr. 21828München: Verlag Kurt Desch, 1964. 172 Seiten , 18 cm kart.,
1962Best.-Nr. 526134New York: Pocket Books / Cardinal Edition 1962. Softcover. Very Good. First edition paperback original. Mass market paperback. Page margins slightly age-toned wrappers with moderate wear at extremities front cover with crease at lower corner about very good. A novel about the conflict of Christianity and atheism in Communist China and a tie-in for the 1962 film starring William Holden Clifton Webb and France Nuyen. Pocket Books / Cardinal Edition unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 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
1945Best.-Nr. 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 books
1945Best.-Nr. 1379585New York: The John Day Company 1945. First Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 84 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good plus dust jacket. Brown spine with purple text. Dust jacket has sunning to spine and mild shelf wear. Textblock has light foxing to edges and to some pages. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #1. 1379585. FP New Rockville Stock. The John Day Company hardcover books
1949Best.-Nr. 376394London: Theodor Brun Limited 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition Limited de luxe issue published simultaneously with the trade issue. Full leather gilt. Scrape on the spine affecting three letters on the title else about very good. Copy number 523 of 750 numbered copies. Theodor Brun Limited hardcover books
1942Best.-Nr. 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 books
1939Best.-Nr. 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
1939Best.-Nr. 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 books
Best.-Nr. 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 books
1936Best.-Nr. 9032847New York: John Day/Reynal and Hitchcock 1936. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with a decorative impressed quarter in green; title in green and gilt on spine. Clean and tight with no marks. 5 5/8 x 8 5/16 inches. 315 pages. John Day/Reynal and Hitchcock hardcover books
1936Best.-Nr. 526126New York: A John Day Book/ Reynal & Hitchcock 1936. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good or better dust jacket with light wear at extremities of spine and front panel and tiny nicks at the crown. A John Day Book/ Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover books
1936Best.-Nr. 133860New York: Reynal and Hitchcock 1936. Hardcover. Good. Third edition. Good/ faded pages soiled. Dustwrapper/torn spine browned. Reynal and Hitchcock hardcover books
1936Best.-Nr. 425541New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1936. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Spine gilt a trifle tarnished else fine in about fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing at the extremities. Biography of Buck's mother who spent much of her life in China. A bright copy of an uncommon title. Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover books