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1965réf. 15067Köln: Lingen Verlag, 1965. 272 Seiten , 21 cm Gewebeeinband mit Schutzumschlag
1962réf. 230091Published in New York: Pocket Books 1962. 12 pp. on rectos of blank paper. 1 vols. 4to. Fine. 12 pp. on rectos of blank paper. 1 vols. 4to. The title story of her 1962 collection HEARTS COME HOME AND OTHER STORIES. Set in China the story deals with the conflict between modernity and tradition in one Chinese family. Pocket Books unknown books
1988réf. 14741Bad Homburg : Heitbaum, 1988. Sonderausgabe 328 Seiten , 21 cm Gewebeeinband mit Schutzumschlag
1974réf. 268187New York: John Day 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good minus hardcover. 48 pages. Clean text. Illustrated in black and white. Faded spots inside front and rear boards. Corners on cover slightly bent. Faded spots on black cloth cover. Spine ends lightly bumped. John Day hardcover books
1970réf. 29681München, Max Huber Verlag, 1970. 30 Seiten , 18 cm, kartoniert
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1945réf. 162846L:ondon: Methuen 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Spine faded top edge soiled. Methuen hardcover books
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
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
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
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
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
19391st edition. VG hbk in blue cloth with faded spine lettering. 15422. eng
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
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
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
1963réf. mon0000103829Cardinal 1963-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. in x in x in. Cardinal paperback
1957réf. 74670E-377: American Weekly. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The American Weekly New York 1957. 23 pgs. Signed and inscribed to Margaret by Pearl Buck at Christmas in 1957. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. According to the foreword this is a "limited library edition" of a story originally written for the December 22 1957 issue of American Weekly. From the book: Possibly the two deepest concerns of all of us today are the impact upon lives forecast by scientific nuclear developments and the role which religious faith will play in the age of interplanetary travel. Pearl S. Buck winner of literature's highest award the Novel Prize has ingeniously succeeded in weaving together in "A Certain Star" a story about these two powerful subjects. It is a warm story pulsing with keen sensitivity to the family tensions besetting dedicated men on the contemporary scene. Above all it is a story with an inspiring message for families in all walks of life and one especially appropriate at Christmas time. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 23 pages . 1957. American Weekly hardcover
1973réf. Q-0381996344John Day Co 1973-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! John Day Co hardcover