first edition
1931 · New York
by Pearl S. Buck
New York: The John Day Company, 1931. Very Good. New York: The John Day Company, 1931. First Edition with "flees" to page 100 and "The John Day Publishing Company" to copyright page. Octavo. 375pp. Brown cloth stamped in gilt; decorative green endpapers; tan topstain variant. Lacks dust jacket. Light edgewear; spine faded and slightly collapsed. Topstain quite faded. Binding sound. Bookplate of a Catherine B. Buckley to front free endpaper; interior else unmarked. A Very Good copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which was quite influential in Buck becoming the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
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