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3 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Good Earth. New York: John Day (1931). First edition, first issue. A couple of spots on the spine, spine lettering tarnished, a very good or better copy in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks at the corners and a little soiling on the front panel. Housed in a custom morocco and cloth clamshell case. The author's best-known book, the first part of her *House of Earth* trilogy, and the book most responsible for her becoming the first American female writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Adapted first for the stage in 1933 (with Claude Rains and Nazimova in the leads), and then as an epic film by producer Irving Thalberg starring Paul Muni and Oscar winner Luise Rainer. A very nice copy of this elusive Pulitzer Prize winner that has become rare in jacket. # $15,000 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Good Earth. London: Methuen and Company (1931). First English edition. Gift inscription, foredge foxed, spine slightly faded, a very good copy in a nice, very good or better dustwrapper with a triangular chip at the foot of the spine, and a faint stain at the crown. The Nobel laureate's best-known book, the first part of her *House of Earth* trilogy, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In 1938, based largely on the strength of *The Good Earth*, Buck became the second woman, and first American woman, to win the Nobel Prize for literature. The book was adapted for the stage in 1933 with Claude Rains and Nazimova starring on Broadway, and then made into a classic film by producer Irving Thalberg, who died during production. Paul Muni starred opposite Luise Rainer, who won an Oscar as OLan. The English edition of this elusive Pulitzer Prize winner has, like the American edition, become exceptionally uncommon in jacket. # $2,500

4 BUCK, Pearl S.. Die Gute Erde [The Good Earth]. Basel: Zinnen-Verlag (1933). First German edition. Decorated cloth. Bookstpre label and owner's name on front fly, small frayed spot near crown, a little foxing on boards, a very good copy without dustwrapper. The first German edition of the author's best-known book, the first part of her *House of Earth* trilogy, and the book most responsible for her becoming the first American female writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Adapted first for the stage in 1933 (with Claude Rains and Nazimova in the leads), and then as an epic film by producer Irving Thalberg starring Paul Muni and Oscar winner Luise Rainer. A very nice copy of this elusive Pulitzer Prize winner. # $35 BUCK, Pearl S.. An Autobiographical Sketch of Pearl S. Buck. (New York): (John Day Company) (1932). First edition. Octavo. Stapled wrappers. (8pp.). Harper and Row file copy, with their ownership stamp and remnants of their label on the spine. Rubbing on the front wrap, else very good or better. Very scarce. # $300 BUCK, Pearl S.. Sons. New York: John Day Company (1932). First edition, limited issue. Fine in fine, unprinted glassine dustwrapper in a worn and repaired slipcase. One of 371 numbered copies Signed by the author. The second volume in the Nobel Prize winner's *House of Earth* trilogy, which began the previous year with her Pulitzer Prize winning *The Good Earth*. A nice copy. # $250

5 BUCK, Pearl S.. Sons. New York: John Day Company (1932). First trade edition. Spine a little sunned and foxed, a very good copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to her brother, Edgar Sydenstricker, on the half-title: For Edgar [printed title: *Sons*] Pearl S. Buck. Buck s parents, missionaries in China who endured a loveless marriage, were not affectionate to the few of their seven children who survived into adulthood, and Buck s relationship with her older brother was very important in sustaining her. Her 1945 novel *Portrait of a Marriage* was based on Edgar s own loveless first marriage. The second volume in the Nobel Prize winner's *House of Earth* trilogy, which began the previous year with her Pulitzer Prize winning *The Good Earth*. A splendid association copy. # $1000 BUCK, Pearl S.. Sons. New York: John Day Company Stated fourth impression. Fine in pebblegrained white cloth and papercovered boards, issued without dustwrapper. Copy number 133 of 1000 numbered copies Signed by the author. The second volume in the Nobel Prize winner's *House of Earth* trilogy, which began with her Pulitzer Prize winning *The Good Earth*. A beautiful copy. # $125 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Young Revolutionist. New York: Friendship Press (1932). Second edition, printed in wrappers. Very good minus with some chipping to the bottom and fore-edge of the front wrapper. Scarce thus. # $45

6 BUCK, Pearl S.. A House Divided. New York: John Day Company (1933). First edition. Boards foxed, particularly on the spine, thus very good in a spine-faded, near very good dustwrapper with several small nicks and tears. Inscribed by the author to her brother, Edgar Sydenstricker, and his second wife For Edgar and Phyllis, Pearl S. Buck. Christmas Buck s parents, missionaries in China who endured a loveless marriage, were not affectionate to the few of their seven children who survived beyond childhood, and Buck s relationship with her older brother was very important in sustaining her. Her 1945 novel *Portrait of a Marriage* was based on Edgar s own loveless first marriage (as opposed to his loveless second marriage, to Phyllis). The final volume in the Nobel Prize winner's *House of Earth* trilogy, which began with her Pulitzer Prize winning *The Good Earth*. A splendid association copy. # $1000 BUCK, Pearl S.. A House Divided. New York: John Day Company (1933). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The final volume in the Nobel Prize winner's *House of Earth* trilogy, which began with her Pulitzer Prize winning *The Good Earth*. A beautiful copy. # $450 BUCK, Pearl S.. A House Divided. New York: John Day Company (1963). Stated fifth impression. Fine in pebble-grained white cloth and papercovered boards, issued without dustwrapper. Copy number 133 of 1000 numbered copies Signed by the author. The third volume in the Nobel Prize winner's *House of Earth* trilogy, which began with her Pulitzer Prize winning *The Good Earth*. A beautiful copy. # $125

7 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Mother. New York: John Day (1934). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful, pretty much immaculate copy. We've never seen one better. # $1000 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Mother. New York: John Day (1934). First edition. Near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. # $300 (Anthology). The Panorama of Modern Literature: Contributed by Thirty-One Great Modern Writers. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran First edition. Introduction by Chritopher Morley. Tiny owner name, fine in about fine dustwrapper with slight age-toning to the spine. Contributors include Sinclair Lewis, E.B. White, Pearl S. Buck, P.G. Wodehouse, and many others. # $25 BALDWIN, Faith. Bank Holiday [a complete short novel in]: Hearst s International Combined with New York: Cosmopolitan. June, International Magazine Company Quarto magazine in wrappers. Small tears at the extremities, else near fine. Includes the Baldwin novel, and stories or articles by Pearl S. Buck, Rupert Hughes, Alexander Woollcott, and Louis Bromfield, and cover art by Harrison Fisher. # $50

8 BUCK, Pearl S.. Between Those Two [a complete short novel in]: Hearst s International Combined with Cosmopolitan. March, New York: International Magazine Company Quarto magazine in wrappers. About fine. Includes the Buck novel, and stories by James Hilton, Roy Chanslor, and Achmed Abdullah, articles by Ida M. Tarbell (*The Greatest Lincoln Story of ALL*) and Paul Gallico, and cover art by Bradshaw Crandell. # $50 BUCK, Pearl S.. His Own Country [story in]: Hearst s International Combined with Cosmopolitan. October, New York: International Magazine Company Quarto magazine in wrappers. Small tears at the edge of the front wrap, chips to the edges of a couple of pages, a very good copy. Includes the Buck story, a full-length novel *Mystery House* by Kathleen Norris, *Mr. Chips and Young Waveney* by James Hilton, and stories or serials by Faith Baldwin, A.J. Cronin, S.S. Van Dine, Albert Richard Wetjen, and Damon Runyon (*Money from Home*), and cover art by Bradshaw Crandell. # $85 WODEHOUSE, P.G.. The Comeback of Battling Billson [story in]: Hearst s International Combined with New York: Cosmopolitan. June, International Magazine Company Quarto magazine in wrappers. Light wear, near fine. Also includes a Pearl S. Buck essay, stories or novels by Peter B. Kyne, Sinclair Lewis, and Achmed Abdullah, and cover art by Bradshaw Crandell. # $75 (BUCK, Pearl S.). A Biographical Sketch of Pearl S. Buck. New York: John Day Company (1936). First edition. Octavo. Stapled wrappers. (28pp.). Harper and Row file copy, with their ownership stamp and label on the spine. Considerable chipping at the extremities. Although it is described as biographical, some informed speculation exists that this was written by Buck herself. # $100

9 BUCK, Pearl S.. Fighting Angel. New York: John Day (1936). First edition. Small signature to the front free endpaper, near fine in a very nice, near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author. # $650 BUCK, Pearl S.. Fighting Angel. New York: John Day (1936). First edition. Very near fine lacking the dustwrapper. # $35 BUCK, Pearl S.. Faderen [Fighting Angel]. Copenhagen: Jespersen og Pios Forlag First edition thus. Fine in quarter leather over marbled paper. Danish translation of *Fighting Angel*. # $35 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Exile. New York: John Day (1936). First edition. Near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. # $250

10 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Chinese Novel: Nobel Lecture Delivered Before the Swedish Academy at Stockholm, December 12, New York: John Day Company (1939). First edition. Fine in a rubbed and worn, about very good dustwrapper with faint remnants of a label on the spine, in a well-rubbed but intact, good plus cardboard slipcase. This copy Inscribed by Pearl S. Buck to her biographer and friend Ted Harris: For Theodore F. Harris, in undying friendship, Pearl S. Buck. Buck s association with Harris was the source of a scandal that marred both her reputation and her relationship with her family. After the death of her second husband, Richard Walsh, the elderly Buck employed Harris, a dance instructor at a local Arthur Murray s dance studio, as a dancing tutor to her daughters. Harris quickly insinuated himself into Buck s household, helping to arrange fund raising events for Buck s charities, and eventually was appointed by Buck to head her new foundation. An investigation by the other Board members resulted in a report that branded him a con man and a practicing homosexual but Buck was undeterred, captivated by Harris youthful enthusiasm. She eventually assigned all of her royalties to the foundation against a large loan that Harris used, among other things, to purchase luxury automobiles for himself and his friends, raised his salary from $7500 per annum to $45,000 per annum guaranteed for life, and similar perks. Harris additionally hired most of his dance instructor colleagues to work for the foundation, had Buck change her will in his favor, and eventually was accused of molesting Korean-American boys that he had the foundation bring to the U.S. As a result Buck, then perhaps America s best-known female author, was embroiled in a scandal that seriously damaged her prestige. Buck s children challenged the will, eventually settling out of court with Harris, who did retain much of Buck s property, including substantial portions of her archives and manuscripts. An important association copy that illustrated the author s connection to Harris. # $1000

11 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Chinese Novel: Nobel Lecture Delivered Before the Swedish Academy at Stockholm, December 12, New York: John Day Company (1939). First edition. Fine in a light rubbed, near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper, lacking the cardboard slipcase. # $275 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Patriot. New York: John Day Company (1939). First edition. Fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper but for a tear along the front flap fold. A bright, better than usual copy. # $175 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Patriot. NY: John Day First edition. Very good. Hardcover, lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, spine and cover edges lightly faded, hinges slightly loose, pages lightly browned. # $35 CHUAN, Shui Hu. All Men Are Brothers. NY: Grosset & Dunlap Later. Very good, book has slight rubbing of spine, minor fading of spine and cover, slight hinge separation at front, aging of pages. Translated from Chinese by Pearl S. Buck. # $65

12 [CHUAN, Shui Hu]. All Men Are Brothers. New York: The Heritage Press (1948). Reprint. Quarto. Without dustwrapper as issued. Translated from the Chinese by Pearl S. Buck. Introduction by Lin Yutang. Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. Near fine with spine faded in good only slipcase. # $30 BUCK, Pearl S.. Other Gods: An American Legend. New York: John Day (1940). First edition. Near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. # $35 BUCK, Pearl S.. Today and Forever: Stories of China. New York: John Day Company (1941). First edition. Slight smudge on the front board, still easily fine in a very attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of short, creased tears. A collection of stories, very seldom found in nice condition. # $500

13 [JOHNSON, John H.]. Negro Digest: A Magazine of Negro Comment [Volumes 1-3; November, 1942 October, 1944]. Chicago: Negro Digest Publishing Company Three volumes. Thick octavos. Bound with all wrappers in green buckram titled in gilt. Boards a trifle rubbed, some wrappers a bit soiled, edges of a few wrappers a little closely trimmed with negligible loss, still near fine. The first three years of this influential and important digest, which was the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpting articles by and about African-Americans from other publications, there was also much original content written expressly for the magazine. The contributors read like a who's who of black writers of the time: Langston Hughes, Walter White, George S. Schuyler, Roland Hayes, Horace Mann Bond, Roi Ottley, and that's just the first issue. Also included are W.E.B. Du Bois, J. Saunders Redding, Mary McLeod Bethune, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles S. Johnson, A. Philip Randolph, Richard Wright, Melville Herskovits, Rayford Logan, Louis Armstrong, Ann Petry, E. Franklin Frazier, Mr. and Mrs. William Grant Still ("Does Interracial Marriage Succeed?"), W.C. Handy, Roy Wilkins, Benjamin E. Mays, Satchel Paige, Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Benjamin Quarles, Paul Robeson, Eslande Goode Robeson, Duke Ellington, Arna Bontemps, E. Simms Campbell, Frank Yerby, Mercer Cook, Charles H. Wesley, Edwin R. Embree, and many lesser lights. Among the white writers who contribute (usually, but not always, writing on subjects of interest to African-Americans) are Shirley Jackson (preceding her first book by a few years), Carl Sandburg, Joseph Mitchell, Earl Conrad, Bucklin Moon, Barney Nagler, Ernie Pyle, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dalton Trumbo, Dorothy Parker, John R. Tunis, Pearl S. Buck, Orson Welles, Woody Gutherie (a condensation of *Bound for Glory*), Ernie Harwell, Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, and Humphrey Bogart. A fascinating line-up of notables, and an interesting look into the psyche of the race during wartime. Presumably not that many copies of this digest would have been printed during wartime; reportedly the first issue was printed in a run of only 3,000 copies. Early issues are very uncommon. # $3,000

14 BUCK, Pearl. Typed Letter Signed ( Pearl S. Buck ). :. Typed Letter Signed from Buck dated 25 February 1942 on her New York stationery, to an editor stating "Enclosed is something which I would like to say to the colored people of this country. I am sending copies of this letter to colored journals, and shall be glad to have you use it if you wish..." Whatever was enclosed is no longer present. Fine. Apparently Buck sent several copies of this letter to editors, as we have a second copy, bound into a copy of her 1942 novel *Dragon Seed*, however, all evidence indicates that she did hand sign each one. # $150 BUCK, Pearl. Pearl Buck Speaks for Democracy. New York: Common Council for American Unity (1942). First edition. Foreword by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Stapled printed wrappers. Small stain at bottom corner of the front wrap, and a little offsetting at the edge of the front wrap, a very good copy. Fairly uncommon. # $100 (BUCK, Pearl). Broadside: "Don't Miss Pearl Buck's Powerful New Novel" [China Gold]. : (nd-1942). 11" x 16". Broadside printed on cardstock. Very light soiling, else fine. Poster reading "Don't Miss Pearl Buck's Powerful New Novel 'China Gold.'" The novel, about "two young Americans [who] find love in war-torn China," was serialized in *Collier's Magazine* in 1942 and has never been published in book form, except in a German translation. # $250 (BUCK, Pearl). Poster: Collier's February 7, China Gold: A Novel of War-Torn China by Pearl S. Buck. (New York): CrowellCollier Poster printed on cardstock. 11" x 16". Very light soiling, else fine. Advertising poster for a specific issues of *Collier's Magazine* with an illustration of a fashionable woman in a yellow hat, by the artist Jon Whitcomb. Buck's novel was serialized in *Collier's* in 1942 and has never been published in book form, except in a German translation. # $250

15 LAIDLER, Harry W., editor. The Role of the Races in Our Future Civilization: Symposium. New York: League for Industrial Democracy First edition. Printed wrappers. 112 pp. Stamped "Review Copy" on the front wrap. Age-toning to the wrappers, a trifle worn at one corner, a very good copy. A symposium that featured Pearl S. Buck, Walter White, Lin Yutang, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Sir Norman Angell, Norman Thomas, and many others. # $45 OBOLER, Arch and Stephen Longstreet, edited by. Free World Theatre: Nineteen New Radio Plays. New York: Random House (1944). First edition. Introduction by Thomas Mann. Preface by Arch Oboler. Fine in attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with slight wear at the crown and some modest rubbing. A radio and screen writers collaboration of radio plays promoting freedom and democracy, offered royalty free for non-commercial broadcast. Among the collaborators were the editors, Budd Schulberg, Pearl Buck, Jerome Lawrence, Ira Gershwin, and Samson Raphaelson. This copy Inscribed by Oboler to Rex Stout: "With best wishes to Rex Stout, fighter for freedom. Arch Oboler." Oboler was one of the great innovators of the golden age of radio drama, specializing in horror and suspense plays, perhaps best known for the popular series *Lights Out* and *Arch Oboler's Plays*. Oboler was later called to Hollywood, where he wrote and/or directed several films including the first "3-D" film *Bwana Devil*, the first film about post-nuclear survivors, *Five* (1951), and an early film about multiple personalities, *Bewitched*. # $800

16 BUCK, Pearl. The Story of Dragon Seed. New York: John Day (1944). First edition. 15pp. A bit of darkening in the gutters, else fine in fine, unprinted dustwrapper. One of 600 copies, none of which were for sale, for presentation by the East and West Association. Signed by the author. Laid in is an invitation to a 1944 theatrical performance of *Dragon Seed* starring Katherine Hepburn to benefit The East and West Association. Very scarce. # $475 BUCK, Pearl S. as John Sedges. The Townsman. New York: John Day (1945). First edition. Very good with some staining to the boards, lacking the dustwrapper. # $20 (Children) BUCK, Pearl S.. Yu Lan: Flying Boy of China. New York: John Day (1945). First edition. Illustrated by George T. Hartman. Small owner name stamp on the front fly, boards a bit soiled and foxed, and a short tear to one page, a very good or better copy in a very good dustwrapper with some foxing, short tears and lacking the bottom 1" from the thin spine. Not beautiful, but an exceptionally scarce wartime children's book. # $150

17 List of Manuscripts Awarded by the Book and Author War Bond Committee Jamaica, NY: Book and Author War Bond Committee / Queens Borough Public Library First edition. Wrappers. Octavo. 55, (5)pp. Small ink note on front wrap, a trifle soiled, else near fine. Interesting list of manuscripts awarded as premiums at war bond drives, including important manuscripts by Sherwood Andeson, Pearl S. Buck, John Dos Passos, Walter D. Edmonds, Albert Einstein, Randall Jarrell, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Mann, Betty Smith, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Rex Stout, James Thurber, Eudora Welty, and many others. # $150 (Anthology) (BUCK, Pearl S.). '47, The Magazine of the Year: Volume 1, Number 1, March New York: Associated Magazine Contributors, Inc First edition. Near fine, lightly age-toned in stapled wrappers with previous owner's sticker on the front wrapper. Includes a contribution from Pearl S. Buck. # $25 BRODIN, Pierre. Les Ecrivains Americains du Vingtieme Siecle. Paris: Horizons de France (1947). First edition. Very good in wrappers. Text is in French. Authors included are Theodore Drieser, Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson, Upton Sinclair, Ellen Glasgow, Pearl Buck, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, William Saroyan, Richard Wright. # $35 BUCK, Pearl S.. Kinfolk. New York: John Day (1949). First edition. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper with chipping to the crown of the spine. A novel of China. # $35

18 BUCK, Pearl S.. Kinfolk. New York: The John Day Company (1949). Book club edition. Very good, lacking the dustwrapper. # $10 BUCK, Pearl S. as John Sedges. The Long Love. New York: John Day (1949). Book club edition. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper with an eighth of an inch by an inch closed tear along the top edge of the front panel. # $20 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Long Love. New York: Pocket Books (1959). First paperback edition. Near fine in wrappers. # $10 BUCK, Pearl. The Hidden Flower. New York: Pocket Books (1954). First by this publisher. Mass market paperback. Very good with a little bend in the lower front corner. # $14

19 (Anthology) WOLFE, Don M., editor. New Voices 2: American Writing Today. New York: Hendricks House First edition. Slight spotting to the spine, still about fine in a bright, about fine dustwrapper with two pretty much invisible stains. Anthology of young writers with essays on writing by Katherine Anne Porter and Pearl S. Buck. Most of the young unknown writers remained unknown, but among them are Edward L. Wallant (*The Pawnbroker*), John Howard Griffin, and Galway Kinnell. An especially nice copy. # $50 SANDBURG, Carl, Pearl S. Buck, and others. (Carbon transcript of): Second Session of the Bulletin Forum: "In a new decade, what's happened to our moral values?". (Philadelphia): The Evening and Sunday Bulletin Stapled carbon copies on yellow paper. 24pp. Modest edgewear, very good or better. Includes a cover letter from The Bulletin's Special Events Director R.E. Beauchang sending the transcript to Leo Orso of Orsonic Recording Services. Radio transcript from a round table discussion featuring Sandbureg, Buck, and two others, lesser known. Apparently Orso was mostly interested in Sandburg's contributions, and has circled Sandburg's name in the transcript where it appears. Presumably rare. # $375 OSARAGI, Jiro. The Journey. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First American edition. Translated by Ivan Morris. Fine in fine dustwrapper but for a nearly invisible tear on the front panel. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Blurbs by Pearl Buck and James Michener. A beautiful copy, and scarce thus. # $125

20 (Anthology) BARR, Beryl and Barbara Turner Sachs, editors. The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook. Sausalito: Contact Editions (1961). First edition. Quarto. Foreword by Alice B. Toklas. Fine in a lightly worn, near fine slipcase. An attractively produced volume gathering recipes from an all-star cast of writers and artists including Harper Lee, James A. Michener, Robert Graves, Evan S. Connell, Jr., Katherine Anne Porter, Lawrence Durrell, Man Ray, Conrad Aiken, Lillian Hellman, Caresse Crosby, Isak Dinesen, William Styron, Erskine Caldwell, James Merrill, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Simenon, Louis Auchincloss, Pearl Buck, Anthony Powell, James Jones, Kenneth Patchen, Richard Wilbur, Beauford Delany, Upton Sinclair, Frances Parkinson Keyes, John Knowles, Evan Hunter, Paul Bowles, Marianne Moore, and dozens of others. # $65 (Literary Interviews) NELSON, James-Edited and with an Intro. By, W. Somerset Maugham, Pearl Buck, Edith Hamilton, et al. Wisdom For Our Time. New York: W.W. Norton First edition. Near fine in a good plus dustwrapper. Book shows very slight bumping of spine ends, tiny hard stain on back panel, dustwrapper shows 2in closed tear on top front cover, some small tears on edges and ends, bottom corner of front flap clipped. # $10 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Living Reed. New York: John Day Company (1963). Stated tenth impression. Fine in pebble-grained white cloth and papercovered boards, issued without dustwrapper. Copy number 133 of 1000 numbered copies Signed by the author. A beautiful copy. # $125

21 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Living Reed. New York: John Day (1963). Book club edition. Near fine in a very good plus dustwrapper. A novel set in Korea. # $10 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Living Reed. New York: Pocket Books (1964). First paperback edition. Very good plus in wrappers. A novel about Korea. # $10 THOMPSON, Era Bell and Herbert Nipson, edited by. White on Black: The Views of Twenty-Two White Americans on the Negro. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc First edition. Thompson and Nipson were editors of *Ebony* magazine. Includes interviews with Eleanor Roosevelt, Frank Sinatra, Steve Allen, Pearl S. Buck, and William Faulkner, among others. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with modest wear and wrinkling to the front panel. # $25 BUCK, Pearl S.. Essay on Myself. New York: John Day (1966). Limited edition, one of one thousand. Publisher s file copy as indicated by several reference and ownship stamps. Fine, lacking the unprinted dustwrapper. # $65

22 (BUCK, Pearl S.). A Biographical Sketch of Pearl S. Buck. (New York): (John Day Company) (1967). Revised edition. Quarto. Stapled wrappers. (8pp.). Fine. Signed by Pearl S. Buck. Originally published as a promotional piece in 1936, it was revised and re-issued in Although it is described as biographical, some informed speculation exists that this was written by Buck herself. # $100 BUCK, Pearl S.. Hearts Come Home (and other stories). New York: Pocket Books (1967). First paperback edition. Very good plus. A collection of short stories. # $15 (BUCK, Pearl S.) HARRIS, Theodore F. in consultation with Pearl S. Buck. Pearl S. Buck: A Biography. New York: John Day Company (1969, 1971). Two volumes. First editions. Volume One is fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the front panel. Volume Two is fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing, and slight fading at the spine. Both volumes are warmly Inscribed by Harris to a man who was named Buck s official bibliographer, but whose bibliography was never completed. Additionally Volume Two is warmly Inscribed by Buck to the same individual. Not much of a biography, but an interesting window into Buck s association with Harris, which was the source of a scandal that marred both her reputation and her relationship with her family. For both volumes. # $250

23 BUCK, Pearl S.. [Original Manuscript]: Son of Fate. : [1970]. Twenty-two page holograph manuscript Signed ("Pearl S. Buck") on the first page. Fine. Probably a second draft while each page has corrections, many of them substantive, few result to changes in more than one sentence per incidence. A long story about Old Dr. Chen, who lives in Taipei, is successful, has three daughters, but no sons. This latecareer story was published in *Insight*, the slim journal distributed by the Pearl S. Buck Foundation and, so far as we can determine, never reprinted. While manuscripts for Buck's nonfiction occasionally appear on the market, her fiction manuscripts, especially with Chinese themes, are very uncommon. # $2,750 BUCK, Pearl S.. Mandala. New York: John Day (1970). First edition. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with the spine faded. Signed by the Nobel Laureate author on the half-title and inscribed by the author on title page. A novel of India. # $125 BUCK, Pearl. The Kennedy Women: A Personal Appraisal. New York: Cowles (1970). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author. # $275

24 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Kennedy Women: A Personal Appraisal. New York: Cowles Book Co. (1970). First edition. Small owner inscription to front free endpaper, else fine in a very good dustwrapper with a quarter inch by three quarters inch rub mark to the rear panel. # $10 BUCK, Pearl S.. A Lesson in Love: an original story in "Insight". Philadelphia: Pearl S. Buck Foundation, Inc One folio sheet folded to make six pages. Volume 2, Issue 5 of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation newsletter. Folded as issued. Fine. Signed by Pearl S. Buck. Most of the newsletter is devoted to the story, and a message from Buck. Very uncommon signed by the author. # $300 BUCK, Pearl S.. [cover title]: Green Hills Farm, Dublin, Pennsylvania. Dublin, PA: The Pearl S. Buck Foundation First edition. Quarto. Mimeographed sheets in stapled illustrated wrappers. 10pp., printed rectos only. Fine. Signed by Pearl S. Buck on the front wrapper. A transcript of a tape made by Buck describing her house in detail, published on the occasion of her 80th birthday. Very scarce. # $325 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Goddess Abides. New York: John Day Company (1972). First edition. Fine in lightly rubbed, very near fine dustwrapper. A better than usual copy. # $45

25 BUCK, Pearl S.. The Goddess Abides. New York: Pocket Books (1973). First paperback edition. Near fine in wrappers. # $10 BUCK, Pearl S.. Words of Love. New York: John Day Copany (1974). First edition. Owner name front fly, else fine in a fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy of the author's first book of poetry. # $50 DAVAR, Ishok. The Kiss. Wheaton, Illinois: Theosophical Publishing House (1976). First edition. Foreword by Pearl Buck. Very good in a very good dustwrapper. # $75 A Pearl Buck Reader: Volume One and Two. NY: Readers Digest Second printing. Very good in very good dustwrapper. 2 volume set. Text clean. Illustrated in color. Clean dustwrapper. # $18 BUCK, Pearl S.. Envelope. :. Number ten envelope with Buck's Philadelphia address engraved on the reverse, and with her name stamp and "chop" mark on the front. Age has resulted in the empty and unused gummed envelope self-sealing, it is also slightly warped from having been bundled with other papers, near fine with no additional markings. # $20

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