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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
1948W0314New York: Limited Editions Club 1948. Books are immaculate and are bound in the Chinese manner with red silk cord the covers are Chinese silk paper. Number 753 of 1500 copies. Signed in red pencil by Covarrubias at end of volume 2. A great classic imaginatively produced. Signed by Illustrator. Limited/Numbered. Paper Wraps. Near Fine/Chemise Fine Slipcase Poor. Illus. by Covarrubias Miguel. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Private Press. Limited Editions Club Paperback 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
195645746Paris: Stock 1956. Paperback. Very good. 494 pp. Light creases and soiling to the spine light edge wear and soiling to the front and back else very good in publisher's wraps. Text in French. <br/><br/> Stock paperback books
194745770Paris: Payot 1947. Paperback. Very good. 448 pp. Light creases and tanning to the spine light edge wear to the front and back else very good in publisher's wraps. Text in French. <br/><br/> Payot paperback books
194745771Paris: Payot 1947. Paperback. Very good. 403 pp. Light creases and tanning to the spine light edge wear to the front and back else very good in publisher's wraps. Text in French. <br/><br/> Payot paperback books
196145349Paris: Stock 1961. Paperback. Good. 242 pp. Creases to the spine light soiling to the back wear to the front and back else good in publisher's wraps. Text in French. <br/><br/> Stock paperback books
1953716441953. BUCK Pearl. THE MAN WHO CHANGED CHINA the Story of Sun Yat-Sen. Illustrated by Frank Castellon. New York: Random House 1953. First edition. 8vo. decorative green cloth pictorial endpapers. Ink ownership name to fore-edge in pencil. Eight leaves are lightly effcted by a small circular patch of dampstain approx. 1/2" else this is a near fine copy in a mildy foxed dust ajcket with some light edgewera and soil small split to the crown.$50.00. unknown books
16155Pearl Buck archive of 3 items a TLS and two typescripts. Pearl S. Buck was the first American female laureate and used her work to advocate for child refugees and women. TLS 1 pg 1957. The letter is signed in full by Buck. She states she is sending an editor 2 texts promoting post war child adoption. Also her original Typescript 25 pages titled "Children Waiting"; and a second Pearl Buck Typescript 19 pages titled "What we can do about Children Waiting" Both Typescript have important content on adoption of children in Asia specially by American soldiers and include hand annotations. <br/><br/>In part: "Two babies came from adoption agencies where they were considered unadoptable because it was difficult to find adoptive parents to "match" them. I was sure that there must be good families matching or not who could love these babies and indeed there were. . .Yet I continue acutely and constantly aware of the thousands of children waiting. . . . These are the citizens of my new world the children without parents and the parents without children pressing eagerly toward each other and yet unable to reach each other. A barrier stands between a high wall and in the middle of the wall is a narrow gate kept locked until a social agency unlocks it a little way and lets one child through at a time. . . .Nobody knows truthfully how many children are in our orphanages. There are many kinds of orphanages. most children are not perfect and so on. They can be helped to want a handicapped children a child of mixed origin or any child at all. . . . We can tear down the walls that keep them prisoners of red tape prejudice and religious division. . . . We can refuse to accept the excuse that there are not enough children to satisfy adoptive parents. unknown books
16692Pearl Buck. First American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and the second woman overall. Buck asks an editor to publish a piece "to the colored people of this country". Typed letter signed on Buck's letterhead for 40 East 49th Street New York N.Y. February 25 1942. Measures 8" x 9.75" inches. Buck's letter reads: "To the Editor: Enclosed is something which I should like to say to the colored people of this country. I am sending copies of this letter to all colored journals and shall be glad to have you use it if you wish on or after February 28th. Sincerely yours" she signs in large elegant script "Pearl S. Buck". In the United States February is designated "Black History Month". Buck was a lifelong activist and her advocate work extended to adoption immigration and anti-War efforts. 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
193929091NY: John Day 1939. First Edition. 8vo pp. 372. Small worm hole at bottom of a few pages o/w VG in worn dj. John Day unknown books
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
197128469New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1971. Hardcover. xviii 172p. illustrations very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Short prose pieces and poetry by a wide variety of young African Americans including a number of poems by Pearl Cleage when enrolled at Howard Fine Arts. Prizes were awarded for this collection and Cleage tied for second place. McGraw-Hill Book Company hardcover books
197822438Woodstock: Aesopus Press 1978. First edition. 20 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 250 copies. Introduction by Ed Sanders. INSCRIBED by Bond to a poetry magazine asking that they review or swap the book. [Woodstock]: Aesopus Press, unknown books
196081643Washington: The Associated Publishers 1960. 10p. staplebound wraps 5.5x8.5 inches illus. with drawings pen notation and previous owner's stamp on front wrap front wrap foxed else good condition. Children's booklet on Marian Anderson. The Associated Publishers unknown books
1986037546London etc.: Allen & Unwin 1986. xv 159p. b/w illus. dj. Allen & Unwin unknown books
1986036032London etc.: Allen & Unwin 1986. xv 159p. b/w illus. lightly chipped dj. Allen & Unwin unknown books
1953037188London etc.: George G. Harrap & Co 1953. 256p. b/w illus. original purple cloth. George G. Harrap & Co unknown books
1942049390London: Adam and Charles Black 1942. With forty-seven drawings by the author. viii 133 1p. b/w illus. lightly chipped dj. Adam and Charles Black unknown books
1958035723London etc.: George G. Harrap & Co 1958. 399 1p. b/w illus. lightly chipped dj. George G. Harrap & Co unknown books
1975406447London: Jupiter Books 1975. A near-fine copy with some light shelfwear. 9.5 x 6.5 inches 128 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition. <br/><br/> Jupiter Books hardcover books
027387. Pearl Besuner Photographs and Promotional Leaflet. Pearl Besuner 1901-1991 was a longtime opera singer and player. Here are 2 8" x 10"photographs of her including one of her playing in Jack and the Beanstalk with photograph by Carlo Edwards. She debuted at the Metropolitan Opera as Siebel in Faust. She was also one of the featured singers in the Golden Age of Opera series. Pitts Sanborn's The Prima Donna novel was based on her life. When she appeared in 1933 in Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones in blackface it raised no objections but fans of the play's history today consider it one of those offensive issues that the audiences of 1933 did not consider strange. Very unusual to find a photograph of her in a play in a photograph taken by Carlo Edwards whose photographs are in collections at NYPL Columbia and Yale as well as in private collections. unknown 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
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
