PEONY: A NOVEL OF CHINA (aka THE BONDMAID)
by PEARL S BUCK
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Poor
- Seller
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West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
This is a first edition, first printing, of Peony, by the American writer Pearl S Buck (1892-1973) who, in 1938, became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Upon its publishing, it was simply title 'Peony'. In later editions, it was released as Peony, a Novel of China and as The Bondmaid.
It was published in 1948 and is set in the 1850s in the city of Kaifeng, in the province of Henan, which was historically a center for Chinese Jews.
The novel follows Peony, a Chinese bondmaid of the prominent Jewish family of Ezra ben Israel's, and shows through her eyes how the Jewish community was regarded in Kaifeng at a time when most of the Jews had come to think of themselves as Chinese.
I'll include the dust jacket but it is in two pieces and I doubt that you can repair it.
The book is perfect. It may have been read, but there isn't a mark in it or on it. It's in mint condition.
Synopsis
Oriental Novels of Peal S. Buck Series
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- Bookseller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1532
- Title
- PEONY: A NOVEL OF CHINA (aka THE BONDMAID)
- Author
- PEARL S BUCK
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The John Day Company
- Place of Publication
- United States
- Date Published
- 1948
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Jews, China, Kaifeng
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy & Religion; American Fiction; Asian/Eastern Art, Culture, History;
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