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• Author: Pearl S Buck
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Seller Description: First edition, first printing, first issue with "The John Day Publishing Company, Inc." on copyright page. Error "flees" that was present in the first three printings on p. 100, line 17. [vi], 375, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering, green topstain and green illustrated endpapers. Fine (clearly benefiting from the jacket's protection throughout the decades), in a Near Fine completely unsophisticated example of the sought-after dust jacket. Jacket lightly worn along ... See More Details

Seller Description: First edition, first issue with "flees" for "fleas" on page 100, line 17 of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original brown cloth, illustrated endpapers. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket with some professional restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare in the original dust jacket. Though ninety years have passed since this novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the ... See More Details

Seller Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. 319 p. BOX ALI050711. (Media mail takes 5-14 days) We sold All items bases on value. Special Note: I check each pages base on visual aspect; (Used book) has Approximate(0)pages contains Answers of all Questions, Notes, Names, Marker s Marks, Highlight, or Under-lines. CDs is (not included): See More Details

Seller Description: First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. First issue with "flees" for "fleas" on page 100, line 17. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on a page bound in, "To Kermit and Helen ... See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First British edition, first printing of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Bound in publisher's original cloth. Near Fine with light fading to spine, a small ding to top and bottom edge of upper board. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear. See More Details

Seller Description: First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece. First issue with "flees" for "fleas" on page 100, line 17. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. Over eighty years have passed since The Good Earth won the Pulitzer ... See More Details

Seller Description: Good. Book may contain some writing highlighting and or cover damage. Shipped fast and reliably! See More Details

Seller Description: Good. Book may contain some writing highlighting and or cover damage. Shipped fast and reliably! See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine. First edition. Small signature to the front free endpaper, near fine in a very nice, near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author. See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 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. See More Details

Seller Description: 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 ... See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good Plus. SIGNED by Buck with a very strong signature on the front endpaper. The book is clean, no marks of any kind. The graphics on the front board and spine are bright. The cloth on the boards is fresh. Light wear to dust jacket. The dust jacket is protected with a mylar cover. See More Details

Seller Description: Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Spine gilt a trifle tarnished else fine in about fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing at the extremities. Biography of Buck's mother, who spent much of her life in China. A bright copy of an uncommon title. See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition (no further printings noted) of the author's autobiography, inscribed on front endpaper. Laid in is a TLS, dated 11-1-57, in which the author talks about the Welcome House Thrift Shop and invites the recipient over for tea. Included is the envelope with the author's married name (Mrs. Richard J. Walsh) printed on the verso. Book is in Very Good condition with some shelf rubbing to extremeties. The dust jacket is also Very Good with some wear to the ... See More Details

Seller Description: 8.25 x 5.5, two tone gilt decorated boards, teg, minor cover wear, spine a little cocked else a nice copy of the "...Special edition...For presentation." LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. See More Details

Seller Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. 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. See More Details

Seller Description: VERY GOOD. 8 1/4 X 5 3/4. Signed by the author. "Of this special edition of IMPERIAL WOMAN, 1, 000 copies have been retained by the author for presentation. This is Copy Number 601". Has a white marbled spine and blue linen with gold gilt on front and spine. Tight binding. No bookplate. No Markings. Book shows very minimal signs of shelf wear. _PAB_ See More Details

Seller Description: Fine condition. See More Details

Seller Description: 8.5 x 5.75, cloth with leather spine label, 467 pp, covers rubbed and soiled, extremities a bit bumped, hinges loose, large bookplate inside front cover, pp toned. FIRST ED, LIMITED TO 371 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. See More Details

Seller Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in price-clipped, else very near fine dustwrapper with slight spine-toning. A much nicer than usual copy. See More Details

Seller Description: Like New. Specially Bound, June 1972, Signed Edition to commemorate the Author's 80th Birthday. Hardly any sign of use with No Writing in text. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service. See More Details

Seller Description: 8.25 x 5.5, two tone gilt decorated boards, teg, 467 pp, covers with a little wear, some foredge soiling else a nice copy of "...Specially bound edition...In honor of the author's eightieth birthday." LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With information on the Pearl S. Buck Book Club included. See More Details

Seller Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in a light rubbed, near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper, lacking the cardboard slipcase. See More Details

Seller Description: Good. Size: 0x0x0; FIRST EDITION. (1st issue with "for the John Day Publishing Company Inc." on the copyright page; "flees" error present on p. 100. ) Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering. Good+ with sunning to spine cloth, former owner's bookplate on verso of front free endpaper with associated wrinkling to nearby pages, a few stray pencil marks in text, lacking jacket. Decent shape overall. The true first edition of the bestselling novel. See More Details

Seller Description: Miguel Covarrubias. Slight foxing to bulked text edges, otherwise about Fine, lacking the chemise and slipcase. Two folio volumes (9-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in Oriental bark paper in the traditional stab-sewn Chinese style. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias with the plates hand-colored in the studio of Paul Baruch. Calligraphic titles by Jeanyee Wong. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. See More Details