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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
9531African American actress and singer Document signed 2 pages dated February 15 1977. Agreement between Pearl Bailey and The Konigsberg Company for the services of Pearl Bailey. Signed boldly in black "Pearl Bailey". In excellent condition. unknown books
196818992ENew York: Harcourt Brace 1968. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author singer-actress Pearl Bailey to her son Tony: “To my son Tony whom I love dearly - and who is so much a part of this book. God bless you always and your loved ones. Mama Pearl.†Illustrated. Very good plus bright copy with a bit of use and edge wear in a very good lightly used dust jacket with some fading to the spine and a few small chips and tears. Several photos of Pearl and Tony are in the book. A book of memoirs. Pearl Mae Bailey 1918 – 1990 was an American actress and singer working in vaudeville and on Broadway. Her Broadway debut was in ‘St. Louis Woman’ in 1946 and she went on to win a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of ‘Hello Dolly!’ in 1968. She also enjoyed a successful television career and in 1986 she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special ‘Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.’ Miss Bailey and her husband jazz drummer Louie Bellson adopted a son Tony in the mid-1950s and a girl Dee Dee in the early 1960s. The meeting between Pearl her husband jazz drummer Louie Bellson and the infant boy Tony is loving described: “Sunday we took off for this town to get our fine son. There he was this lovely baby boy nineteen months old in just a diaper - not undershirt no shoes - big wondering eyes staring at Louis and me. He might have been wondering if these two folks would leave him stranded later in this big world. Well Son we’re still around.†When Tony was seven Dee Dee was adopted into the family to everyone’s delight. Harcourt, Brace unknown books
194839328Two volumes. New York: The Limited Editions Club 1948. limp boards made from the bark of a tree hammered out and with hammered pieces of the wood remaining visable to the eye decorated bright red labels drawn by hand by Jeanyee Wong sewn in the Chinese manner by Frank Fortney of New York and inserted in a cloth folder which is inserted in a slipcase. Limited Editions Club. small 4to. limp boards made from the bark of a tree hammered out and with hammered pieces of the wood remaining visable to the eye decorated bright red labels drawn by hand by Jeanyee Wong sewn in the Chinese manner by Frank Fortney of New York and inserted in a cloth folder which is inserted in a slipcase. xxix350; vi351-6882 pages. Translated from the Chinese by Pearl S. Buck with an Introduction by Lin Yutang and Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by the Covarrubias. The illustrations in the text were hand colored in the studio of Paul Baruch. Fine in a near-fine tape repaired slipcase and chamise. The Limited Editions Club unknown books
19316681London: Methuen & Co. Ltd 1931. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1931 1st UK edition. Solid and VG in its tan cloth with light foxing to the preliminaries and edges. 12mo 339 pgs. plus publisher's ads. Also includes a custom-made full-morocco slipcase with folding chemise. <br/><br/> Methuen & Co. Ltd hardcover books
1918140939428New York: Henry Holt and Company 1918. First Edition. Very Good. Advance reading copy issued to reviewers before publication of the first edition with publisher's slips pasted onto paste down and title page. Publication date of May 9 1918 written on slips. vi 363 1 6 ads pp. Original blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with staining to fore edge light wear to cloth pages toned with age. Scarce in the advance format. The second novel by bestselling author and poet Pearl L. Curran who claimed to be channeling the spirit of Patience Worth a 17th century English immigrant to America. In a Smithsonian Magazine article Gioia Diliberto writes: "Speaking through a Ouija board operated by Pearl Lenore Curran a St. Louis housewife of limited education Patience Worth was nothing short of a national phenomenon in the early years of the 20th century. Though her works are virtually forgotten today the prestigious Braithwaite anthology listed five of her poems among the nation's best published in 1917 and the New York Times hailed her first novel as a 'feat of literary composition.' Her output was stunning. In addition to seven books she produced voluminous poetry short stories plays and reams of sparkling conversation-nearly four million words between 1913 and 1937. Henry Holt and Company unknown books
19581338804New Haven CT: Monocle 1958. Saddle-stitched. 5.5"x 9.5" Pamphlet; 48 pages; G; White and Black Saddle-Stitched Paperback with black text and illustrations on both covers; Covers have minor edgewear small closed tears along head and fore edges of front cover small brown stains on both covers; Textblock has small brown stains on some pages; Shelved Case 0. 1338804. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Monocle unknown 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
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
199950599Athens GA: Hill Street Press 1999. First edition 8vo pp. 14 iv 118 16; one of 226 specially bound copies signed by all 22 contributors including Richard Wilbur Alice Munro William Maxwell George Garrett and others; this copy not numbered but belonging to the binder Greg Campbell Campbell-Logan Bindery; full turquoise cloth over boards spine and front cover gilt-stamped; fine in cloth covered slipcase. A festschrift of sorts prepared for Welty's 90th birthday. <br/><br/> Hill Street Press hardcover books
40574Pen and ink on paper. 1 vols. 8-1/2 x 6 inches. Marginal binding holes else fine. Pen and ink on paper. 1 vols. 8-1/2 x 6 inches. Inscription reads "To Alfred Eisenstaedt-with appreciation Pearl S. Buck. October 18 1956. unknown books
197257054NY: 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. This novel is about the author's mother during the dangerous Boxer Rebellion in China. 8vo. imitation white leather & red boards stamped in gilt top edge gilt; 315 pages. Near fine extremely minor signs of wear; contents clean & tight. The John Day Company unknown books
1922273972Baltimore 1922. unbound. 1 page 8.5 x 5.5 Baltimore Maryland November 22 1922 to American psychiatrist and staunch Eugenicist Dr. Stewart Paton in full: "I have asked the publishers to send you a copy of my book 'The Biology of Death' which has recently appeared. I hope that you will presently receive it and find it of some interest." Within five years both scientists would come to hate one another with Paton replacing Pearl as the poster boy of Eugenics and the voice of the Eugenics Research Association. Natural folds; fine condition. Pearl rarely comes to market and it speculated that his letters were avoided by collectors due to his anti-Semitism and also the fact that Pearl restricted much of his correspondence to the scientific community.<br/><br/> American biologist and father of the controversial science of Eugenics and founder of Biogerontology. He made his case on the world stage with his publication "Breeding Better Men" and delivered the first speech at the very first International Eugenics Congress in London July 1912. In 1927 Pearl shocked the scientific community and his peers at John Hopkins University by renouncing the entire movement. Many thought it too late to correct the damage as he had already endorsed Alexis Carrel's erroneous ideas that "normal cells don%u2019t age" and his own theory for The Rate of Living Hypothesis which enjoyed prominence for nearly 50 years.<br/><br/> unknown books
1932288693New York: John Day 1932. Limited. hardcover. fine. 8vo tan buckram leather spine label. New York: John Day 1932. Limited First Edition. Fine<br/><br/> One of 371 copies signed by the author.<br/><br/> John Day unknown books
196420021Stratford CT 1964. Fine. 6.5 x 3.75 in. pictorial envelope. A U.S. First Day Cover commemorating 400th Anniversary of William Shakespeare's birth. Signed by Nobels—Miguel Asturias Samuel Beckett Pearl Buck and Mikhail Sholokov. <br/><br/> unknown books
194633571Washington: GPO 1946. Senate Document No. 244 79th Congress 2d Session. Octavo. xvi 580pp. 3 folding maps. Complete as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Two ink stamps on the front free endpaper else very good with no other markings. Boards moderately soiled. Very Good. <br/><br/> The scarce final report with the minority views of Homer Ferguson and Owen Brewster. FIRST EDITION. GPO unknown books
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1980167496Atlanta GA: Nexus Press 1980. First edition. Hardcover. 111 pages. Number 320 from an edition of 1200 copies. A monograph on the African Ameican photographer P.H. Polk. Essay by Pearl Cleage Lomax. Includes 62 black and white images. A very near fine copy in a near fine cloth slipcase. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Polk on the limitation page. Nexus Press unknown books
1962139686Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1962. Vintage oversize double weight borderless photograph from the set of the 1962 film showing Leo McCarey directing William Holden from behind the camera with legendary script supervisor Connie Willis to his right while actor France Nuyen waits just offstage. With a mimeo snipe tipped on the verso crediting photographer Lawrence Schiller and stamps of the Holmes-Lebel and Camera Press agencies on the verso. <br/><br/>Based on an originally work "The China Story" by Pearl S. Buck which was subsequently developed into the 1962 novel titled "Satan Never Sleeps" published concurrently with the film. <br/><br/>8.25 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
500069"Pearl S. Buck" in dark blue fountain pen ink on Loew's letterhead New York April 17 1942. Also signed by witness Bliss Ananes and by New York Notary Public Milton C. Rose on April 21 1942 with notary blindstamp. Small folio 2 pages recto and verso with rubberstamped "Contract Office File Copy." Contract for motion picture rights to her novel "Dragon Seed." "Dragon Seed" was released by MGM in 1944 directed by Jack Conway starring Katharine Hepburn Walter Huston Turhan Bey Hurd Hatfield Frances Rafferty Agnes Moorehead and J. Carol Naish. The film received two Academy Award nominations. Exteriors for the film were shot in Calabasas north of Los Angeles and in Los Angeles' Chinatown district. During filming Buck visited the set of "Dragon Seed" and gave her approval to the production. Although some critics consider "Dragon Seed" a sequel to "The Good Earth" its characters and story line are unrelated to the earlier film. Many Asian actors who appeared in "Dragon Seed" also appeared in "The Good Earth.". Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. paperback books
190741144Auburn IN: Auburn Wagon & Buggy Works "Done in Our Own Print Shop" 1907. 8vo. 28 pp. Illustrations some with color. Original color illustrated wrappers soiled stapled. Very good. First edition. A trade catalogue featuring the company's automobiles introduced by a fictional account of motoring. Auburn's first automobile was produced in 1903. Unrecorded on OCLC. <br/><br/> Auburn Wagon & Buggy Works), "Done in Our Own Print Shop" unknown books
1980212769Atlanta: Nexus 1980. Limited. hardcover. fine. P.H. Polk. Exquisite black & white photographic portraits. Square 4to beige and brown cloth beige cloth slip case. Atlanta: Nexus 1980. Limited First Edition. A fine copy.<br/><br/> One of 1200 signed and numbered copies. A monograph of the work of P. J. Polk one of the most important African-American photographers of the last century.<br/><br/> Nexus unknown books
1943WALTER-FILM004029<p>Vintage original script by Marguerite Roberts dated 8-13-43 with revisions on colored paper dated up through 11-26-43 for Pearl S. Buck adaptation. Brad bound printed wrappers mimeograph 190 pp. Minor water stains to covers generally NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD or better wrappers.</p><p><i><b>Numerous pages have the name of director James Conway written in pencil making it almost certain that this was his copy of the script.</b></i>However it does not contain any MS annotations.</p><p>"<i>As the Second Sino-Japanese War erupts in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of northern China the rural Tan family in southern China go about their daily chores without notice of the impending conflict. Jade Katharine Hepburn wife of Lao Er Tan Turhan Bey desires books an unconventional request for a Chinese wife. But when war finally reaches the family Jade is first to join the resistance leading pacifist patriarch Ling Tan Walter Huston to concern over his family's entry in the war.</i>" Wikipedia</p><p>At this moment in her career after a few years of comedies in which her feminist characters generally got their comeuppance in the final reel Hepburn was now returning to the strong kinds of characters with which she had earlier been identified in this film with a woman screenwriter adapted from a novel by Pearl S. Buck.</p><br /> Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paperback books
197257053NY: The John Day Company 1972. Specially-bound edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Buck on the limitation page this being copy #195 dated June 1972. 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. An autographed copy of Buck's most famous book!. 8vo. imitation white leather & blue boards stamped in gilt top edge gilt; 316 pages. Fine but for extremely tiny rubbed spot rear pastedown; contents clean & tight. The John Day Company unknown books
1946222118New York 1946. reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAIT: The Photography of Carl van Vechten from this print. Half-length view of the performer in costume. 1 vols. 34.5 x 24 cm 13-5/8 x 9-1/2 inches. Fine. Atelier stamped on verso docketed by Van Vechten in ink recording the subject of the photograph "Pearl Bailey takes a call after singing A Womans Prerogative" the date the number of the negative "vi - cc - 3" and indications to the printer for reduction. reproduced in Mauriber's PORTRAIT: The Photography of Carl van Vechten from this print. Half-length view of the performer in costume. 1 vols. 34.5 x 24 cm 13-5/8 x 9-1/2 inches. Provenance: The estate of Saul Mauriber Van Vechten's assistant and executor of Van Vechten's photography estate and the compiler of PORTRAITS: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CARL VAN VECHTEN 1978 unknown books