BUCK, Pearl SABAA
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1943Best.-Nr. 425602New York: John Day 1943. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Nearly invisible dampstain on the front board else fine in bright very good plus dustwrapper with a few very small nicks and tears. An unusually nice copy of a cheaply produced wartime book about China and Burma. John Day hardcover books
1944Best.-Nr. 19004New York: The John Day Company 1944. Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine. The limited edition of The Story of Dragon Seed signed by Pearl S. Buck. This short work recounts how Buck came to write Dragon Seed and her contacts with Chinese farmers in Nanking. Twelvemo 15pp 1. Red cloth illustration stamped in black on the front panel. Appears unread. From a limited edition of 600 copies for "Presentation by the East and West Association." This copy is signed by Pearl S. Buck on the front free endpaper. Dragon Seed was first published by The John Day Company in 1942 a wartime novel set in and around Nanking during the Japanese invasion of China. The book was adapted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer into the 1944 film Dragon Seed starring Katharine Hepburn Walter Huston and Aline MacMahon. The John Day Company unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 432790New York: John Day 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Owner's name at the top of the front fly Inscribed by the author beneath it: "With warm greetings Pearl S. Buck upon a pleasant occasion November 8 1970. John Day hardcover books
1967Best.-Nr. 569269London: Methuen & Co 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. About fine in very lightly rubbed about fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Buck on the half-title: "For Mr. and Mrs. E. Byron Keeble Very best wishes Pearl S. Buck. Dec 28 1972." The English edition is quite uncommon especially signed. Methuen & Co hardcover books
1966Best.-Nr. 101443NY:: John Day Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. A novel. First edition. Near fine in a very good minor edge wear dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
1966Best.-Nr. 504867New York: The John Day Company 1966. Softcover. Very Good. Spiral-bound uncorrected proof in tall galley form printed rectos only. Blue printed wrappers in plastic spiral binding as issued. Remnant on front wrap from a publisher's label on covers age-toning at edges of leaves else a very good copy. Very scarce in this format. The John Day Company unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 589124New York: Pocket Books 1958. Softcover. Very Good. First Cardinal Giant edition. Mass market paperback. Creases and rubbing on wrappers very good. Cardinal Giant GC-46. Pocket Books unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 526127London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1932. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First English edition published in the same year as the American edition. 12mo. 187 1 pp. Binding cocked endleaves with a bit of tanning and foredge lightly spotted very good in a heavily spine-toned good only dust jacket with loss at the spine ends affecting the titling and several nicks and tears. The English edition is uncommon in jacket. Methuen & Co., Ltd hardcover books
1965Best.-Nr. 15067Köln: Lingen Verlag, 1965. 272 Seiten , 21 cm Gewebeeinband mit Schutzumschlag
1962Best.-Nr. 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
1988Best.-Nr. 14741Bad Homburg : Heitbaum, 1988. Sonderausgabe 328 Seiten , 21 cm Gewebeeinband mit Schutzumschlag
1974Best.-Nr. 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
1970Best.-Nr. 29681München, Max Huber Verlag, 1970. 30 Seiten , 18 cm, kartoniert
1949Best.-Nr. 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
1948Best.-Nr. 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
1948Best.-Nr. 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
1936Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
1943Best.-Nr. 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
1942Best.-Nr. 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
1945Best.-Nr. 162846L:ondon: Methuen 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Spine faded top edge soiled. Methuen hardcover books
1942Best.-Nr. 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
1943Best.-Nr. 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
1936Best.-Nr. 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
1970Best.-Nr. 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
