Buck Pearl S.ABAA
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1943025606New York: John Day 1943. William A. Smith. 60 pages. One of the more scarce children's books by Pearl Buck. Based on her childhood growing up in China she writes of her fantasies of magic and Aladdin she picked up a stone and rubbed it when she saw large figures including the Water-Buffalo Children and others. A marvelous tale of imagination and childhood ways of viewing their world. John Day unknown books
2012Embry 190718Random House 2012. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Random House, 2012. First edition, first printing. 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
1959029918Urbana: University of Illinois Press 1959. vii 360p. b/w front. original grey cloth author's SIGNED presentation copy. University of Illinois Press unknown books
1913263549London: C.W. Daniel Ltd 1913. Hardcover. 256p. cloth-covered boards 6x9 inches corners bumped offsetting to both free endpapers penciled check marks in the margins of a few pages else very good condition. Andrews an individualist anarchist cofounded the Modern Times colony. An anti-Marxist affiliate of the First International he wrote speeches and articles for Victoria Woodhull. Johnpoll. C.W. Daniel, Ltd hardcover books
19531331596London: Faber and Faber 1953. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Hardcover; Spine yellow with gold print on blue banner; Boards in yellow cloth wear to corners and spine caps bump to bottom corners toning to spine light shelfwear; Text block has blue-tinted top edge slight spotting to edges name in ink on front endpaper else clean and tight; xix 114 pages frontispiece color illustrated b&w plates. Shelf: East Asian Art. 1331596. FP New Rockville Stock. Faber and Faber hardcover books
199515798NY: Riverhead Books 1995. 1st edition. Signed. Green cloth spine with green paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket. NF/NF. 296 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Riverhead Books hardcover books
1997WRCLIT78215New York: Scribner 1997. Cloth and boards. Dust-speckled top and fore edges hence very good in fine dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the author on the title and with a six-line autograph note of conveyance from her to Kit Reed thanking her for her early help. Scribner hardcover books
19681327320New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; First edition; VG/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine black with tan print; DJ in mylar edgewear crease to front toning to spine mild shelfwear price-clipped; Boards in orange cloth with black print clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Inscribed in ink by the author on the title page; 206 pages illustrated b&w plates. 1327320. FP New Rockville Stock. Harcourt, Brace & World hardcover books
1968118462New York: Harcourt Brace 1968. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper to noted critic and reviewer Mel Gussow: " To Mel / All my love and respect / God keep you / Pearl / 8/16/68." Gussow was a theatre critic and cultural writer for The New York Times from 1969 until his death in 2005. He authored 8 books served as editor for many others and his reviews and interviews with the likes of Arthur Miller Samuel Beckett Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard became staples of students and fans of theatre for decades. His first published review was Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" in 1962 leading to a lifelong relationship with the playwright that resulted in a biography of Albee by Gussow published in 1999. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Light toning to the page edges. Jacket has a bit of rubbing and nicking at the extremities. A very presentable copy of the Tony Award winning actress and singer's autobiography. Harcourt, Brace 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
I23OS-00002Pocket. Used - Good. Good condition. Pocket unknown books
SB05OS-00672Pocket. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Reading copy only. Spine is cracked. Slightly dampstained. Pocket unknown books
1943241848New York: John Day 1943. 248 pages very good hardcover in edgeworn dustjacket. Novel about Chinese soldiers who are sent to rescue a British-American platoon in Burma from the Japanese army. John Day unknown books
196937623NY: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1969. First Edition. 8vo pp. 241. Appendices bibliography index. A nice copy in somewhat soiled dj. Holt, Rinehart and Winston unknown books
1969UEPSPRI00HMRHolt Rinehart and Winston 1969. Very Good. Epstein Perle. The Private Labyrinth of Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano and the Cabbala. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1969. 241pp. Indexed. 8vo. Black cloth. Book condition: Very good with subtly rubbed edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with bumped and chipped edges. Faintly yellowed. Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover books
196951313New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A near fine copy in a bright and glossy dust jacket. <br/><br/> Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover books
1969WRCLIT46962New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1969. Gilt black cloth. First edition. Small sticker ghost offset to endsheet on front pastedown otherwise very good in dust jacket. Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover books
20069020399New York: Random House 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original burgundy paper over boards spine stamped in gilt. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books
2006Embry 150106Random House 2006. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket with one tiny scratch to rear panel in mylar cover. Random House, 2006. First edition, first printing. unknown books
197173054Oakland: Peralta Hospital 1971. Paperback. 29p. 7p. illus. a 7x10 inch softbound inscribed by Fibel plain brown wraps titled gilt a nice design by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. The Yapp edges are a little crimped else excellent: sound clean and unmarked. Peralta Hospital paperback books
1978UMEYPEA00twVintage 1978. Very Good. Meyers Perla. The Peasant Kitchen: A Return to Simple Good Food. NY: Vintage 1978. 222pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped and rubbed edges. Vintage paperback 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
1958035723London etc.: George G. Harrap & Co 1958. 399 1p. b/w illus. lightly chipped dj. George G. Harrap & Co 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
