Sons - Hardcover

Buck, Pearl S.

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ISBN 10: 999740520X ISBN 13: 9789997405203

Publisher: John Day, 1932

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New York: The John Day Company, 1932. First Edition (stated). Octavo, brown boards, blind stamped sunrise, gilt imprinting, red topstain, 467 numbered pages. No jacket. Bookplate of previous owner Walter M. Maas Jr. - that being a Seattle family of some note - on front pastedown. A handsome - really handsome - near fine book, with only a faint touch of dust on bottom page edges, and the bookplate, which adds to the gravitas but technically is not a part of fine condition - keeping this one from being a sharp Fine, bright and clean. No jacket, but a superb first edition copy to put in one. See scans. L51n

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From the Author:

"Now Sons, of course, is a purely Chinese book. It is modeled on the plan of the orthodox Chinese novel, the material is altogether Chinese, the characters are less like ourselves that in he first book [The Good Earth], and the situations are medieval to the American mind."

--From a lecture by the author

About the Author:

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), the daughter of missionaries, was born in West Virginia but spent most of her time until 1934 in China. She began writing while in China and published her first novel shortly after returning to the United States. Her novel The Good Earth was the bestselling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932, and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, ''for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.''

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