Buck Pearl S.ABAA
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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
193920490<b>The Official Poem of the New York World's Fair 1939 and other prize winning poems</b><br />Book contains the prize winning poems entered into contest for the New York World's fair of 1939. pp.43<br />Condition is As New with publisher's original glassine wrap. The Academy of American Poets hardcover books
2000188980Cambridge University Press 2000-03-13. Hardcover. Very Good. Dust jacket and book are clean has a very good binding and crisp pages no mLight dust jacket wear. HB HS Cambridge University Press hardcover books
2003204130NY: Random House 2003. ARC for the first edition. Glossy pictoral wraps. Signed and dated "2-27-03" by Pearl on the title page. Bottom corner of front wrap just touched; rear wrap upper corner and few text page corners with shallow small crease trifle spine bottom edge bump. Unread copy. Near Fine condition. Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reader's Copy. Random House Paperback books
19285085London & New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons Limited 1928. Octavo 303 pages. First edition. More than 1200 American recipes compiled by and for American woman while abroad in the UK. The introduction acknowledges the British origins of many American dishes but encourages English women to engage the recipes as well as Americans have placed their own unique spins on them. It's interesting to see American dishes typeset in the style of English cookbooks. Generally very good in slightly edge worn printed gray boards with the front and rear panels of the dust jacket present otherwise perished. The front panel of the dust jacket features a charming illustration by Hester Sainsbury. OCLC locates nine copies just four in the US. G.P. Putnam's Sons, Limited hardcover books
9558LA WESTERNLORE 1965. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. LA, WESTERNLORE, 1965 unknown books
19374573JNew York: Grosset & Dunlap 1937. Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the MGM classic film starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer. Ownership inscription else fine in a bright slightly used dust jacket. The endpapers show scenes from the film and the front panel of the jacket is a color painting of Muni and Rainer in the rice fields. Winner of two Academy Awards including one for Rainer as Best Actress. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
1965289884New York. : John Day. 1965 . 1st Edition. Green cloth gilt spine title top edge stained green. . Very good bookplate to ffep in a nearly very good dust jacket with some edgewear and a brown coffee stain to back panel. . ‘21x14.2 cm. . Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title page. John Day. hardcover books
1965148542New York: NBC 1965. Vintage publicity photograph of Minnie Pearl in her signature hat and dress circa 1965 with "NBC Photo by Paul Bailey" stamp on the verso. <br/><br/>Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon known professionally by her stage character Minnie Pearl was an American country comedian perhaps best known for the television variety show "Hee Haw" which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1971. She also appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for over 50 years from 1940 to 1991.<br/><br/>Pearl's comedy was a light-hearted satire of rural Southern "hillbilly" culture and always appeared in frilly dresses wearing a hat with the $1.98 price tag hanging from it. She greeting her audience with her signature "How-w-wDEE-EEE! I'm jest so proud to be here!" which quickly became a call-and-response with audiences everywhere.<br/><br/>7.25 x 9 inches. Very Good plus with two vertical holograph wax pencil markings at top and semi-transparent white ink along hat tie with two staples in the upper margins. NBC unknown books
1928RPEARAT01EMAlfred A. Knopf 1928. Very Good. Pearl Raymond. Rate of Living : Being an Account of Some Experimental Studies on the Biology of Life Duration. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1928. 1st edition. 185pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt. Book condition: Very good with spine sunned. Edges gently bumped and rubbed. Small chip in head of spine. Inscribed by the author on front endsheet. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover 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
190629508London: Fisher Unwin 1906. Beardsley. 8vo pp. 444. Colored picture on the cover by Beardsley. Edges foxed o/w a VG tight copy. The illustration is adapted from the poster design for Unwin's Pseudonym Libraries. Lasner 76c. A novel. Fisher Unwin unknown books
1938127697Berkeley Heights NJ: The Freeman Press 1938. 19p. string-bound wraps 4.25x7.25 inches wraps lightly worn light foxing throughout else very good condition. One of 300 copies. First published in September 1857 in 'The periodical letter' edited by Josiah Warren. " Printed and hand-set with the Garamond type by A. Freeman Ishill." - colophon. The Freeman Press unknown books
1989JC2791New York: Doubleday 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Red cloth spine and boards. Bookplate of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Inscribed on a post-it: "Dearest friend / I'll always remember the 'Ginger Bread' Love Pearl." <br/><br/> Doubleday hardcover books
1976JC2793New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Original boards. Bookplate of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Inscribed on title-page "To my darling Mary and Doug From dearest 'Duey' a child of all ages -- Pearl." Marked "Pre-Release Copy." <br/><br/> Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover books
1971JC2792New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Original boards. Bookplate of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Inscribed on title-page "To dear Doug -- a rare man -- all love Pearl. Teacher to scholar / scholar to pupil / we all learn." <br/><br/> Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover books
1965RBAKWIL00efWesternlore 1965. Very Good. Baker Pearl. Wild Bunch at Robber's Roost. Los Angeles: Westernlore 1965. 255pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges. Front endsheet slightly discolored. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with rubbed bumped and slightly creased edges. Two short closed tears in head of front panel. Lightly faded spine. Bulging with items laid-in: two copies of photographs of Black Jack Ketchum a letter written by author Pearl Baker and newspaper clippings about the wild bunch Baker and the Robber's Roost Ranch enclosed in a letter written to legendary Western Americana bookseller Sam Weller. Westernlore hardcover books
193016822E1930s. Original autograph signature of British novelist Pearl Bellairs who also published under the name Margaret Jepson written in vintage fountain pen ink on a 4†x 3†piece of paper. Fine. Pearl Bellairs is a pen name of Margaret Jepson the daughter of British writer and editor Edgar Alfred Jepson who published mostly adventure and detective fiction but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories. He used the pseudonym of R. Edison Page for some of his many short stories collaborating at times with John Gawsworth and possibly Arthur Machen. His son Selwyn Jepson was known as a crime writer. Margaret Jepson is the author of Via Panama and her daughter Franklin is the well-known writer Fay Weldon. unknown books
1932W0421ANew York: Friendship Press 1932. Dust jacket some wear and chipping on edges; inside of top edge extending to spine has paper tape reinforcement. Pictorial endpapers. A portyral of Chinese youth of the early nineteen thirties. Third Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Friendship Press Hardcover 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
1970170727003New York: Cowles Book Company 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Buck on the half title. First edition second printing. 218pp. Leather-backed ream-colored cloth boardslettered in gilt. Very Good with light foxing to cloth and very slight lean to spine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with small closed tear near foot a bit of light staining to back panel. Best known for her Pulitzer-winning novel The Good Earth in this book Pearl S. Buck examined the long-suffering women of the Kennedy political dynasty. Cowles Book Company hardcover books
1970025607New York: Cowles 1970. First Edition. Octavo. . 218 pages. Limited to 575 copies for presentation and signed by the author this is number 160. Besides the well-known Kennedy women such as Rose Jackie and Ethel she also writes of the lesser known ones. This is a woman's view of the tragic deterioration of a proud and powerful family caused Miss Buck believes by the standards and failures of the society that spawned it. Bound in 1/4 brown leather over white cloth spine lettering gilt some finger soiling to cloth in clipped dust jacket. showing only very minor wear to spine ends. Cowles unknown books
1947278026New York: John Day 1947. First. hardcover. very good/very good-. 8vo black cloth d.w. with a small amount of slight chipping d.w. lightly soiled corners of cloth and a small area bottom edge of back cloth cover lightly bumped. New York: John Day 1947.<br/><br/> John Day unknown books
19344375.2New York: John Day 1934. 1st edition. Hardback. Yellow top stain. Dust jacket. VG cloth dull/slt cock/Abt VG some wear/sp darkened/sm 1/4" piece msg at hd of spine. 302 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> John Day hardcover books
