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191549816Austin: Press of E. L. Steck 1915. 1915. TEXAS. First edition. 6 1/2" x 9 1/4" string-tied green embossed wrappers green front and rear endpapers n. p. 44 pp. frontispiece illustrated from photographs and drawings portraits acknowledgment. This copy provided with the "Compliments of The American National Bank." as it is printed on the front cover. The author presents the history of Austin chronicling important events and early settlers. While a history of Austin it also functions as a history of the American National Bank and ends with portraits of its officers and directors. Enhanced by photographs of the major buildings and points of interest. A scarce and important publication promoting Austin. Small nicks and chips to the cover fore-edges light wear to head of spine else a very good copy of a scarce item. Press of E. L. Steck, 1915. unknown
97049302Cleveland 1943 Forest. Green boards very clean14 x 20.7 cm. 277p. papers a bit browned else a very solid copy. AUTHOR'S SIGNED COPY a small blue paper tipped inside front cover:"Best Wishes Pearl Buck" in blue pen. VERY RARE ! This is the author's first book and her first novel. It concerns he knowledge of Buddhism and China. . It is a poignant and lovely primary impression of life and religion in China the land where she spend most of her life. She was born in and grew up in China. Pearl went to the States in 1929 to find a publisher of her first book. She met Richard Walsh editor at John Day publishers in New York he accepted her novel East Wind: West Wind. The rest is history ! PEARL BUCK: "Pearl Sydenstricker Buck June 26 1892 -March 6 1973 also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces." . After her return to the United States in 1935 she continued her prolific writing career and became a prominent advocate of the rights of women and minority groups and wrote widely on Asian cultures becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed race adoption.". . During the Cultural Revolution Buck as a preeminent American writer of Chinese village life was denounced as an "American cultural imperialist." Buck was "heartbroken" when she was prevented from visiting China with Richard Nixon in 1972. . Pearl S. Buck died of lung cancer on March 6 1973 in Danby Vermont and was interred in Green Hills Farm in Perkasie Pennsylvania. She designed her own tombstone. The grave marker is inscribed with Chinese characters representing the name Pearl Sydenstricker." Note: above extracted from Wikipedia see below. EDITION: This is the FIRST TOWER EDITION. CONDITION: This is a very clean solid copy mild browning to the paper a small mend to the top verso of title page & the bottom edge of the first fly leaf else exceptionally clean copy. REFERENCES:. unknown
2024x-1032483903Routledge 2024. Hardcover. New. 2nd edition. 264 pages. 10.00x7.00x10.00 inches. Routledge hardcover
1958195781958. Cole Nat "King" subject. St. Louis Blues lobby card archive 1958 documents the representation of African American musical heritage in mid-twentieth-century American cinema centered on the life and legacy of W. C. Handy. The material captures prominent Black performers portraying and interpreting blues and jazz traditions within a studio production providing primary visual evidence of how African American musical history was translated to film. It supports research into Black performance music history and the role of Hollywood in shaping narratives around blues culture during the 1950s.<br /> St. Louis Blues. Paramount Pictures Corp. 1958. Archive of 3 original color lobby cards each measuring 11 x 14 inches. The images feature leading performers including Nat King Cole Eartha Kitt and Ella Fitzgerald. One card depicts Kitt in an orange dress posed in a performance setting emphasizing stage presence and costume. Another shows Cole seated at a piano visually reinforcing his role as both musician and central figure in the narrative. A third card presents Cole and Fitzgerald singing together highlighting the film's emphasis on collaborative musical performance. The film also features additional major figures including Pearl Bailey Cab Calloway Mahalia Jackson and Ruby Dee situating the production within a broader constellation of Black musical and theatrical talent. Each card includes printed titles and cast credits combining promotional design with performance imagery.<br /> The film emerges from a period when Hollywood intermittently produced works centered on African American cultural figures often foregrounding music as a primary narrative vehicle. By focusing on W. C. Handy widely known as the "Father of the Blues" the production situates blues within a national cultural framework while showcasing leading Black performers of the era. Such visual materials document how mid-century studios marketed African American musical heritage to broader audiences balancing biography with performance spectacle. Two lobby cards exhibit pinholes at margins from theatrical display; colors remain strong with light wear; overall very good condition. A concise visual record of African American musical performance and representation in 1950s cinema. unknown
ANAIS-096330481XA Bedpan Productions Book. paperback. Good. 9.5X6.5X1.5. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. A Bedpan Productions Book paperback
1949437867New 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
1977335521Franklin Station Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1977. Hardcover. Fine. First edition with these illustrations. Illustrated by Anthony Young Chen. Full gray cloth stamped "RECORD AND REFERENCE COPY" on the front board and spine. All edges gilt. Slight wear else fine. Presumably one of very few or perhaps the only copy thus as opposed to the thousands of leather bound copies of the publisher's "limited edition". The publisher's file copy. Franklin Library hardcover
1935015657Reynal and Hitchcock. Unclipped DJ in archival cover small chip. Braun DJ art. . Fine. Hardcover. 1935. Reynal and Hitchcock hardcover
19941000220<p>NEW ~ Two volumes in slipcase. Vol. 1 paper cover 293 pp. Vol 2 hardcover facsimile of codex. History of the encomienda and governors of Tepetlaoztoc; maps relating to the geographical limits and natural surroundings. SPANISH / ESPANOL 2000 ejemplares / edition of 2000. Over 5 lbs. Weight and size may result in an increase in international shipping costs. In stock. Usually ships in 3 days.</p> EL COLEGIO MEXIQUENSE
195226116Methuen. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1952. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed on the front endpaper "For Ted with deepest appreciation Pearl S. Buck." ; We believe that "Ted" is Theodore Ted Harris an Arthur Murray dance instructor who became Buck's confident a few years after her husband's death. ; The book is tight and clean with solid binding. Dustjacket shows wear with large chips along the edges but looks Good in the new Mylar cover that now protects it. ; Signed books written by Pearl S. Buck under her pseudonym John Sedges are very rare. ; 8vo; 204 pages; Signed by Author . Methuen hardcover
BN107511Bertelsmann Lesering Gütersloh. Hardcover. Wo die Sonne aufgeht. Einzig berechtigte Übertr. aus d. Amerikan. von Maria Meinert <br/><br/>Wo die Sonne aufgeht. Einzig berechtigte Übertr. aus d. Amerikan. von Maria Meinert Bertelsmann Lesering, Gütersloh hardcover
1619AWA. 1. hardcover. AWA hardcover
2019x-1516579186Cognella Academic Publishing 2019. Hardcover. New. 340 pages. 8.00x0.81x10.00 inches. Cognella Academic Publishing hardcover
2020Manohar-9780367199586Routledge 2020. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
2020Manohar-9780367199586Routledge 2020. Hardcover. New. Routledge hardcover
1954SKU1006796John Day 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/vg. vg in vg dust jacket signed on 1st fly page by author book and dj in great shape 1954 1st ed. illustrated by Kurt Werth John Day hardcover
197638838HEYNE WILHELM 1976. 1. softcover. WESTERN CLASSICS HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
197438729HEYNE WILHELM 1974. 1. softcover. WESTERN CLASSICS HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
1999010522Athens GA: Hill Street Press 1999. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in slipcase as issued. Bound in green silkish cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Published on the occasion of Welty's 90th birthday. One of 200 numbered copies there were also 26 lettered copies SIGNED by the editor and all 22 contributors: Richard Bausch Doris Betts Fred Chappell Ellen Douglas Tony Early Clyde Edgerton George Garrett Ellen Gilchrist Anthony Grooms Barry Hannah Mary Hood Greg Johnson William Maxwell Willie Morris Alice Munro Daniele Pitavy-Souques Reynolds Price Louis D. Rubin Jr. Lee Smith William Jay Smith Elizabeth Spencer and Richard Wilbur. <br/><br/> Hill Street Press hardcover
1993SONG096330481XBrand: Bedpan Productions 1993-01-01. 3rd Edition. paperback. Used: Good. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Bedpan Productions paperback
DADAX1563261049Brand: Disney Books by Mail 0000-00-00. paperback. New. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Disney Books by Mail paperback
2009x-0470517034John Wiley & Sons Inc 2009. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 508 pages. 9.75x7.00x1.25 inches. John Wiley & Sons Inc hardcover
197928055KNAUR THEODOR 07/1979. 2. softcover. KNAUR, THEODOR paperback
6230PEARL BUCK 1892-1973. Buck was an American writer and novelist best known for The Good Earth that won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize and she won a Nobel Prize later.TLS. 2 pgs. 8 x 10. March 21 1969. Perkasie Pennsylvania. A typed letter signed Pearl S. Buck to Prim Fletcher: I have received your letter of March the 14th and I am enclosing a Chinese recipe which I enjoy. The second page of the letter includes an itemized recipe for SWEET-SOUR SPARE RIBS with directions and is also signed by Buck. Both pages are in very fine condition. unknown
19253102NY: Harper & Brothers 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 5.25"x7.5"x1.5". 308 pgs. Dk orange cloth boards with blue design and letters on front and spine. PON on ffep: "Snow Moon 19 Sun 26th Greater Sun. Chief William Red Fox Rose Bud S.D." 4 B&W illustrations incl. frontispiece. First Edition I-Z. 4 pgs of book advertisements in back. Spine straight binding tight pages toned unmarked. Edgewear to head and toe of spine. Spine straight binding tight pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library unmarked no Dj. Secure ship w/track #. Chief William Red Fox 1870-1976 was the nephew of Crazy Horse. He performed in this early silent western as well as others. He also worked for Buffalo Bill for many years as an actor and translator. "Considered one of Zane Grey's best novels The Vanishing American was originally published in serialized form in the Ladies Home Journal in 1922. It reveals Grey's empathy for the Native American and his deep concern for the future survival of that culture. <br /> It is the story of Nophaie a young Navajo who is picked up by a party of whites at the age of seven. White parents bring the child up as though he were their own eventually sending him to a prestigious Eastern college where he distinguishes himself by his outstanding athletic skill. The Vanishing American is about Nophaie's struggle to find a place in society. On a larger scale it is about all Native Americans and their future in America." Goodreads. Harper & Brothers hardcover