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1950004864New York Day 1950. 1950. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Ink inscription blue cloth slightly bubbling else NrF. Ink inscription states that this was from a speech given at a convention in June of 1953 Signed by Buck on a tipped-in card. 3rd edition. New York Day 1950. Hardcover
1942823New York: The John Day Company 1942. Ninth Impression. Cloth. Good. Oblong 12mo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. Red cloth with black titling. Lacking dust jacket. Light soiling to cloth chipping at spine ends mainly head. Binding shaken but sturdy. Faint discoloration to endpapers. Bright red and black illustrations throughout. An American mother tells the story of her childhood growing up in China and the neighboring family's efforts to finally produce a son after having six daughters. The John Day Company unknown
194213428John Day Company 1942. Twelfth Printing. hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. 9x6x0. Dust jacket has significant tears and chips soiling darkened spine price unclipped - poor condition. Yellow cloth boards have light rubbing at extremities clean interior. Library edition 12th printing. Pearl Buck drew on her own childhood to write this children's book about an American child in China. Ages 5-7. All orders packed with care most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve independent bookseller since 2011 John Day Company hardcover
1939308048New York: John Day 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The lecture given by Buck on accepting the Nobel Prize for literature. She was the third American after Sinclair Lewis and Eugene O'Neill and fourth woman after Selma Lagerof Grazia Deledda and Sigrid Undset to win the prize.<br/> <br/> Buck whose best-known novel The Good Earth is set in China uses the Nobel pulpit to discuss Chinese fiction a little considered subject at the time. It wasn't until 2012 that a Chinese writer—Mo Yan—was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. <br/> <br/> 59 pages. First edition first printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a snag on the back panel resulting in a narrow band of creasing and some tears. Bookplate on the front pastedown. In a very good slipcase with some wear to the corners.<br/> <br/> This copy is one of an unspecified number signed by Buck and issued in a slipcase. It is possible that none of the signed copies were for sale. This one comes with a letter from the publisher addressed "Dear Bookseller" that reads "We take pleasure in sending you with our compliments a personal advance copy of The Chinese Novel." The letter goes on to promote a forthcoming Chinese novel Moment in Peking by Lin Yutang.<br/> <br/> This book is not common with the slipcase and letter. John Day hardcover
1946152848London: Methuen 1946. 3rd edition. Nice copy. small quarto. hardback with dust jacket 54pp. illusts. Nice copy of the British edition in blue boards decorated in red & black in a nice price-clipped wrap-around dust jacket by Katherine Tozer. Very uncommon in this condition Methuen hardcover
194392544Methuen & Co. London. 1943. Methuen. 1943. First edition. DW. Slim square 8vo. Illustrated boards and endpapers. Colour illustrations. Gift inscription to half-title. Edges of boards sunned pages slightly browned otherwise a clean and sound copy in wrapper that is slightly browned and worn with a small close tear and creases to top corner of rear panel. hardcover
193961177New York: The John Day Company 1939. First Edition. Advance Issue one of an unspecified number of copies signed by Buck on the front endpaper and sent with "Dear Bookseller" letters roughly a month prior to publication with the compliments of The John Day Company. Octavo 22cm; black cloth with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; publisher's slipcase; ii45-593pp with a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Touch of dust-soil to cloth else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $1.50 lightly edgeworn with some light surface wear and a diagonal crease to rear flap; Very Good in like slipcase. <br /> <br /> Buck's Nobel Lecture in which she discusses the origins of the great novels of China and maintains "that it is the Chinese and not the western novel which has shaped her own efforts in writing." from front flap. The John Day Company unknown
1942501445New York: John Day 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Drawings by William Arthur Smith. Boards quite stained a good only copy in moderately stained good or better dust jacket. Inscribed by Buck on front fly: "For Gladys Rosa Watkins and I hope you like the Chinese children. Pearl S. Buck." Additionally Inscribed by the artist incorporating a Chinese chop mark: "To Gladys. Happiness to you forever! Bill. William Arthur Smith. March 4 1943." A very uncommon children's book. John Day hardcover
19431785London: 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
19425619John Day. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. Former school library with stamp inside front cover and card pocket inside back cover. Illustrated white and red boards black titling. Solid binding moderate shelfwear head and tail of spine and corners bumped. Light surface soil. Clean unmarked pages. Drawings by William Arthur Smitth. ; 9 X 6 X 1 inches; 62 pages . John Day hardcover
1939000115New York: The John Day Co. 1939. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in Near Fine jacket; signed by author. Slipcase also present. See scans and description. New York: The John Day Company 1939. First Edition signed by the author uninscribed on the ffep. Thin octavo 59 pp. Black cloth binding with gilt imprinting black and gold jacket. Fine book in Near Fine jacket showing only light peripheral wear. Unclipped still bearing the $ 1.50 1939 price. The very scarce slipcase is also present albeit with detached spine; slipcase otherwise quite perfect. See all scans. One of Buck's scarcest. The Chinese Novel is Buck's Nobel Lecture delivered at the Swedish Academy upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Buck the first of just two American women to win the prize points out the distinct nature of the Chinese novel the quintessential grass-roots form which comes from and lives within the Chinese common people whose tea house and farming villages are the roots of the stories contained therein. She also predicted - correctly - that her own adherence to this form would cause her to fall out of the critical limelight in time. With the slipcase hard to replace. Provenance provided to purchaser. L12n <br/> <br/> The John Day Co. hardcover
193996291New York: John Day Company 1939. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a light rubbed near fine price-clipped dustwrapper lacking the cardboard slipcase. John Day Company hardcover
2338641New York: John Day Company 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x8x0. Magagna Anna Marie. First edition. Includes original jacket. Ink gift note on front endpaper endpapers lightly foed and toned bottom corner of front jacket flap clipped a couple closed jacket tears and a 1/2 inch abrasion along top edge small tape repair and 1/4 inch chip along rear jacket edges. 1960 Hard Cover. 42 pp. Pictorial boards not the less desirable blue cloth library binding. Illustrations by Anna Marie Magagna. A Christmas story for young readers by the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning The Good Earth and other novels. Buck was also the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. John Day Company hardcover
1944165033New York: The John Day Company 1944. First edition first printing presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Mrs Shaddinger and her children - With warm regards Pearl S. Buck". Helen H. Shaddinger 1911-1995 worked as Buck's secretary for 25 years - after her death the long lost manuscript for The Good Earth was found among her possessions. Centred on a friendship between a Chinese and an American girl this story was originally written by Buck for her children to help them better understand life in China. The illustrator Esther Brock Bird lived for a time in China and provided drawings for Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom the 1940 work by the famous China-hand Carl Crow. Octavo. Illustrations in text. Original light green cloth spine lettered in green green vignette on front board. With dust jacket. Jacket chipped especially at spine ends 45 mm closed tear on front panel professionally repaired with tissue unclipped: a fine copy in very good jacket. hardcover
194463206E-286: The John Day Co. Very Good. 1944. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by John Day New York 1944. 63 pgs. Signed by Pearl Buck on the FFEP. Second Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Dragon Fish. Two little girls one American and one Chinese tired of their brothers decide to run away. With the help of a magic Dragon Fish they go off to the city seeking adventure and find much more than they had hoped for. EB; 8.6 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches; 63 pages; Signed by Author . The John Day Co hardcover
0886820596New. library. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. unknown
0886820596.Glibrary. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
20131-1480439703Open Road Media 2013. Paperback. New. 288 pages. 8.00x5.50x1.00 inches. Open Road Media paperback
2013Q-1480439703Open Road Media 2013-10-22. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Open Road Media paperback
0330022466.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19369032847New York: John Day/Reynal and Hitchcock 1936. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with a decorative impressed quarter in green; title in green and gilt on spine. Clean and tight with no marks. 5 5/8 x 8 5/16 inches. 315 pages. <br/><br/> John Day/Reynal and Hitchcock hardcover
90-21267P. F. Collier And Son Corporation. Hardcover. New. . P. F. Collier And Son Corporation hardcover
1936526126New York: A John Day Book/ Reynal & Hitchcock 1936. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good or better dust jacket with light wear at extremities of spine and front panel and tiny nicks at the crown. A John Day Book/ Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
1936055177New York Ny: The John Day Company / Reynal & Hitchcock 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good /No Jacket. 315 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Dark Green Spine Lettered In Gilt On Black Top Edge Green. First Edition. Light Usage No Marks Very Good <br/> <br/> The John Day Company / Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
193613182The 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