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UBUCDIE00AFKurt Desch. Very Good. Buck Pearl S. Die gute Erde. Munich: Kurt Desch ND. 1950pp. 12mo. Tan cloth with maroon lettering and illustration. Book condition: Very good with slightly mushy spine. Covers and fore-edge have some light brown stains. Previous owner's stamps on free endsheets and title page. Underlining and marginalia halfway through the text. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with chipped edges and a few small losses. Light soiling to front cover and spine. Kurt Desch hardcover books
1942242030New York: John Day Co 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very good in good dustwrapper. 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. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. John Day Co hardcover books
193008955New York: John Day Company 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Bound in bue cloth with gilt lettering spine gilt design lower corner front cover. Very good copy with fading to gilt on spine mild wear to spine tips short closed tear top of first few pages. 277 pp. <br/><br/> John Day Company hardcover books
193612803New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1936. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine in dust jacket a little faded at spine panel minutely rubbed. A biography of the author's father. <br/><br/> Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover books
197257057NY: The John Day Company 1972. Specially-bound edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Buck on the limitation page this being copy #195. One of the selected works of Pearl S. Buck issued to recognize her 80th birthday. Buck whose maiden name is Sydenstricker was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She was well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoptions. "Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul" is a memoir about Buck's father Absalom Sydenstricker as a companion to her memoir of her mother "The Exile. 8vo. imitation white leather & red boards stamped in gilt top edge gilt; 302 pages. Fine condition. The John Day Company unknown books
196189872NY:: John Day Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. B004GBL3ZA . First edition. Previous owner's stamp on front paste-down else very good in a very good some light edge wear dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
195131210NY: John Day 1951. First Edition. 8vo pp. 375. Flap of dj laid in. VG. John Day unknown books
195194095NY:: John Day Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. A novel. First edition. Very good in a very good faded along the spine foxing on rear panel and flap edges dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
197257058NY: The John Day Company 1972. Specially-bound edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Buck on the limitation page this being copy #195. One of the selected works of Pearl S. Buck issued to recognize her 80th birthday. Buck whose maiden name is Sydenstricker was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She was well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoptions. "Imperial Woman" is the fictionalized biography of the last Empress in China Ci-xi who began as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing Dynasty until her death in 1908. 8vo. imitation white leather & blue boards stamped in gilt top edge gilt; 376 pages. Fine condition. The John Day Company unknown books
195492879NY:: John Day Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. B001NXWWXG . First edition. Very good in a very good edge worn chipped at the spine ends price clipped dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
194920869New York: John Day Company 1949. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; original cloth in red and black pictorial dust jacket; 8406pp. Two tiny closed tears to jacket spine crown else Fine. "A Novel of China" - upper jacket panel. John Day Company unknown books
194931199NY: John Day 1949. First Edition. 8vo pp. 406. VG no dj. A novel. John Day unknown books
1964UBUCLEB00MELLingen Verlag 1964. Very Good. Buck Pearl S. Lebendiger Bambus. Koln: Lingen Verlag 1964. 428pp. 8vo. Cream cloth. Book condition: Very good with rubbed and bumped edges light bumping to bottom edge of text block and a crease in top corner of page 419. Lingen Verlag hardcover books
1957Embry 188861Methuen & Co. 1957. First U.K. edition. Fine in fine faintly worn dust jacket in mylar cover. Methuen & Co., 1957. First U.K. edition. unknown books
194156545NY: John Day 1941. First Edition. 8vo pp. 203. Partially unopened. A very good copy in some worn dj. Novelist Buck on the relationship between men and women finding that the imbalance in power threatens democracy. John Day unknown books
197251789NY:: 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
1946288324New York.: John Day. 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover rust cloth gilt titles. Bookplate to pastedown otherwise fine in a very good unclipped dust jacket with only light edgewear and slight sunning to spine. . 8vo. John Day. hardcover books
025604New York; 1948: John Day. First Edition. Octavo. . 312 pages. Inscribed by Pearl Buck on the title page. An important novel by Pearl Buck the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize. While Peony is written in the realist style of Buck's earlier works such as the Good Earth it is distinctive in showing not only the lives and cultural practices of the Jews and their amazing assimilation into China while elsewhere they were castigated or as in the case of Nazi German marked for extermination. A near fine copy bound in brown cloth stamped in gilt spine gilt in near fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket. John Day unknown books
025603New York; 1945: John Day. Octavo. 224 pages illustrated by Charles Hargens. Buck's novel of a marriage set against the Pennsylvania countryside. "Marriage is so profound an experience" William wrote to his grown daughter "I should be sorry if you missed it. It takes place sometimes between two who are unsuited but still it is profound." In this fine novel Pearl Buck writes of a couple unsuited but the richness through trials is told in her marvelous style. Bound in green cloth spine lettering gilt gilt a bit dull a very good copy in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with light chipping to foot. John Day unknown books
196293714NY:: Pocket Books. Very Good. 1962. Paperback. B0006AXIYY . C-429 Cardinal Edition. A novel. First printing thus mass market paperback. Very good or better in illustrated wraps. . Pocket Books, paperback books
193208124New York: John Day Company 1932. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good-. Octavo. A very good- Review Copy in original yellow and red dust jacket over wrappers. Mild cover edge wear dampstain affecting lower edge of rear cover spine and a few pages. 467 pp. <br/><br/> John Day Company paperback books
19320850New York: The John Day Co 1932. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. 467pp. Bound in light brown cloth lettered in gilt red pictorial endpapers top edge red. A fine copy in unclipped nearly fine dust jacket. A very handsome copy. 467 pp. <br/><br/> The John Day Co hardcover books
196086751NY:: John Day Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in a very good two closed edge tears on front panel both corners of front flap are clipped dust jacket. . John Day Company, hardcover books
1944237517New York: John Day 1944. First Edition. Illus. by Esther B. Bird. 63 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Olive cloth near fine in very good chipped dust jacket. First Edition. Illus. by Esther B. Bird. 63 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. INSCRIBED TO HER SECRETARY. INSCRIBED by Buck to her secretary of 30 years "To Mrs. Shaddlinger and her children. With warm regards Pearl S. Buck John Day unknown books
