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193111702New York: John Day 1931 First Edition elusive first issue with "flees" for "fleas" in line 17 page 100. Also "John Day Publishing Co." on copyright page and with top edges stained brown. Brown cloth. The book is tight and clean . Foredges are uncut. Small owner's name in pen on half-title page. Green pictorial endpages in nice condition. Top pages edges stained brown - clean. Clean looking cloth binding with bright gilt on front board - faded a little on spine. Spine has some fading and a few subtle spots - a very small wear spot is at the lower left. Edges not worn. Very good or better. no jacket. A Pulitzer prize winner. John Day hardcover
1936228498grosset & dunlap 1936 23rd photoplay hardcover. near fine binding in a near fine dust jacket with tiny corner chips grosset & dunlap hardcover
193120904New York: The John Day Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1931. 1st Edition. Second Printing. Hard Cover. First edition second issue 'Flees' rather than 'fleas' on page 100; "For the John Day Company Inc." on copyright page; top edge stained brown. Publisher's full brown cloth gilt lettering and medalion on spine and cover t.e.g. brown fore-edge deckle green printed endpapers. . Front hinge starting spine and cover faded pages 82 and 83 have shadow where a newspaper clipping had been placed covers mildly worn small closed tear at exterior rear hinge otherwise unmarked square and clean. GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 375 pp . The John Day Company hardcover
1932001071New York: The John Day Company 1932. 1st Edition 22 Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. April 1932. Author's second published novel. This book was the 1932 Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner and was her most famous title. Light brown cloth covered boards have gilt text on spine and front panel with an impressed country scene in both title boxes. fo name at top of full title p. top edge dyed green green/white decorative ep's. Book is tight and square. Laid in are two newspaper obituary clippings and magazine picture of the author. Bookseller's Inventory # 231071. <br/> <br/> The John Day Company hardcover
19312928London: Methuen & Co. 1931. First British edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. Octavo original light brown cloth. Signed by Pearl Buck on the title page. Near fine in the rare dust jacket which shows light wear to the extremities with minute expert restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare signed. Over eighty years have passed since The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know and I know nothing but China having always lived there" wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. This moving classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who want to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century. Methuen & Co. hardcover
19393604Pocket Books 1939. Vintage Paperback. The 11th Pocket Book this is the first printing as number 11 states 2nd printing but the first printing is the unnumbered Pocket Book which is rare. The book is nice and square. Very minor wear minor spine rub. No major creases. This is a nice copy of this book better than normally found. Scan available. First Thus. Paperback. VG/VG. Pocket Books Paperback
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
19374573JNew York: Grosset & Dunlap 1937. Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the MGM classic film starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer. Ownership inscription else fine in a bright slightly used dust jacket. The endpapers show scenes from the film and the front panel of the jacket is a color painting of Muni and Rainer in the rice fields. Winner of two Academy Awards including one for Rainer as Best Actress. Grosset & Dunlap unknown
1931009134New York: John Day Company. State first edition with flees instead of fleas on page 100 line 17.Good light edge wear and bumps.very slight soiling but for one spot near decorative title box on front pics on request.white illustration on green paper endpapers.binding weak with splitting at board inner hinges.small prev owner name in ink on ffep. . Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. 1931. John Day Company hardcover
200532019Illus. end papers MeadWestvaco's Classic Series unknown
mon0000107798Franklin Library. leather_bound. New. 1.8000 in x 14.5000 in x 9.0000 in. Franklin Library hardcover
1931169441London: Methuen 1931. First UK Edition. Scarce in jacket. <br /> <br /> The first book in the author's House of Earth trilogy winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Basis for the 1937 Victor Fleming film starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer who won an Oscar for her performance as O-Lan. <br /> <br /> Slightly cocked foxing to the page edges gift inscription to the front endpaper generally Very Good in a Very Good or better dust jacket with moderate toning to the spine a small chip to the heel affecting the N in Methuen and a few tiny splashes to the top right corner of the front panel. Methuen unknown
1932p252New York: John Day 1932 23rd printing September 1932 with its original DJ.PLEASE SEE PHOTOS OF BOTH>>1st Book has light soiling staining to coversminor shelfwearmost of gilt lettering intactformer owners bookplate 1st leaffront hinge exposed but still tightsmall article glued to the About Author Pagerest of the book very tight and clean internallight moisture stains/spots first few page ends.DJ: 2nd or 3rd state with THE PULITZER PRIZE NOVEL on the front cover has the colorful chinese lady on the front heavy wearaffecting the H in EARTH front cover corner and chipping and soiling but still 90% complete and price intact.Spine is very very readablethis is the John Day DJ not G&D.Very Very hard to find an original dj in any condition.I have many of Pearl Buck's Bookssome signed. Later Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair/Poor dj.<br /><br />ADDED: The Good Earth: A Silk Road Journey with CD and its box. To me this is probably the best copy of The Good Earth available.Beautifully bound book Music and its Storage Boxslightly damaged. John Day hardcover
0864382499.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19314994New York: John Day Publishing Co 1931. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No dust jacket. No dust jacket with some foxing throughout to pages and cracking/looseness to hinge. Untrimmed pages with brown "staining" to top edges. "For the John Day Publishing Company Inc." on the copyright page. Previous owner's bookplate on decorated paste down. <br /> <br /> This is the First Edition that presents with the typo of "flees" for "fleas" on page. 100 line 17. A true collectible of an important work. John Day Publishing Co hardcover
1931428<p>VERY GOOD condition — BOARDS: Tear across top portion of spine from side to side; chipping to area above same and the crown. Small half inch tear to spine just above foot; minor discoloration to same. Faint stain to top of front board just below edge approx. 1½ x 1½ inch. Minor stain to upper right corner back. Minor scuffs to all outside corners. BOOK: Faint staining to textblock head. Very faint bleedthrough of textblock staining to top edge of pages corresponding to width of stain. Ink markings to half-title and title pages. Please inspect photos and description closely for condition details.</p><p><br /><strong>Here on offer is a very nice copy of Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer-Prize winning book <em>The Good Earth</em> the first novel in Buck's House of Earth trilogy. This copy is a 1st trade edition 1st printing of the work published by John Day Publishing Company in 1931. There is no dust jacket but the boards are protected from further wear by a custom vinyl sleeve.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><em>"Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Oprah Book Club selection about a vanished China and one family's shifting fortunes.</em></p><p><em>Though more than seventy years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. In The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This moving classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century.</em></p><p><em>Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors its passions its ambitions and rewards. Her brilliant novel—beloved by millions of readers—is a universal tale of an ordinary family caught in the tide of history."</em></p><p><strong>//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////</strong></p><p><strong>Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck June 26 1892 – March 6 1973 was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938 Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces" two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.</strong></p><p><strong>Buck was born in West Virginia but in October 1892 her parents took their 4-month-old baby to China. As the daughter of missionaries and later as a missionary herself Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang with her parents and in Nanjing with her first husband. She and her parents spent their summers in a villa in Kuling Mount Lu Jiujiang and it was during this annual pilgrimage that the young girl decided to become a writer. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg Virginia then returned to China. From 1914 to 1932 after marrying John Lossing Buck she served as a Presbyterian missionary but she came to doubt the need for foreign missions. Her views became controversial during the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy leading to her resignation. After returning to the United States in 1935 she married the publisher Richard J. Walsh and continued writing prolifically. She became an activist and prominent advocate of the rights of women and racial equality and wrote widely on Chinese and Asian cultures becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoption.</strong></p><p><br /><em>The above text was taken from respectively Washington Square Press via Google Books and Wikipedia.</em></p> John Day Publishing Company hardcover
1980312865Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Barron Storey. Very Good in boards. Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. Decorated endsheets. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. Small stain on bottom text block edge.; First Franklin Library Edition. Franklin Library hardcover
193477365Modern Library 1934. First Modern Library edition. Owner signature. Good to Very Good condition. No dust jacket. Modern Library unknown
1931bps,tge1stDaynoDJ<p>PLEASE SEE PHOTOS. 1ST STATE HARD BROWN CLOTH. hAS ALL THE POINTS OF ISSUE. nO MARKINGSINK OR PENCIL PRESENT. vERY SMALL SHELF WEAR TO THE ORIGINAL INCLUDING ITS TOP BROWN STAIN. aLL 1ST STATE POINTS PRESENT CHECK THE PHOTOS.</p> JOHN DAY PUBLISHING hardcover
19364067New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1936. Grosset & Dunlap. Publishers' Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Plus or Better. Stated 33 printing September 1936 on copyright page black and white photos from the MGM classic film starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer on the end papers Book near Fine publishers' very clean mustard cloth with blue title on front board and spine tight and square with No previous owner bookplate or writing Jacket is Very Good Plus or Better bright colors chip to heal of spine and a little tear on top edge of front panel. Sates A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Photoplay on the spine. Excellent copy of the Pulitzer Prize Classic! Grosset & Dunlap unknown
1931bp,tge1st3stateGreen2<p>PLEASE SEE PHOTOS. LET ME EXPLAIN THE STATES 1ST STATE HAS BRIGHT ORANGE STAIN ON THE TOP EDGESEE MY LISTED FOR 14K ONE OF 125. 2ND STATE HAS BROWN STAIN TOP EDGE AND THE JOHN DAY PUBLISHING COMPANY ON COPYRIGHT PAGE JUST LIKE THE ORANGE. Most list the correction on the copyyright page TO JOHN DAY COMPANY AS A 2ND STATE BUT IT IS THE 3RD STATE WITH THE GREEN STAIN TOP EDGE. The error about "flees" is present up to the 3rd Printing or 6 runs. Mr. John Day was ask about states and he could not even remember. I have seen 3 of the Orange in 45 years and almost sold the 14k for 2k until i examined all three books and the wrapper matched the 1st state. There it is. I can not take credit for the 3 states it is mention by another author in 1932. The green stain is suppose to have about 6200 but I have only seen 2 of them in 45 years. The brown has about 3200 those I have seen 100's.</p><p>This book is of normal Very Good Condition and no dustacket but has a bookplate. It is very tight and square.</p> JOHN DAY hardcover
1931SKU1160389AThe John Day Company 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Missing. New York 1931; 1st edition; brown cloth covered boards; corners and spine edges bumped with board exposed at corners; no dust jacket; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; previous owner's name on free front end paper; "FLEES" INSTEAD OF "FLEAS" on page 100 line 17; interior clean and unmarked; 375 pages. The John Day Company hardcover
1931bp,tgeVG+<p>SEE PHOTOS OF THIS 1931 FIRST EDITION vg CONDITION.</p> JOHN DAY hardcover
1931bps,ge1stEdNoDjGood<p>PLEASE SEE PHOTOS. JOHN DAY PUBLISHINGBROWN STAIN TOPERROR "fleas". The covers soiled otherwise it is closer to VG than Good. please look at their photos then come back and buy this one for less</p> JOHN DAY hardcover
1971BPS,TGE<p>PLEASE SEE THE PHOTOS OF THIS DIRECT SIGNED AND DATED ONLY. REVISED AND RESET BUT ALONG THE SAME LINES AS THE FIRST EDITION. HARD TO FIND IN THIS CONDITION SIGNED. Light bruising to spine endsonly defects I see a really nice copy. I collect Pearl Buck so I have an extensive library including the only Review Copy to survive so far1 of 125 totally intact.</p> JOHN DAY hardcover