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Penguin Books, 1960. Paperback. Good. 1960. First Thus. 310 pages. Paperback book. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Penguin Books, 1960. Paperback. Good. 1960. First Thus. 310 pages. Paperback book. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Washington Square Press. F. 2004. washington Square Press Trade Edition. Softcover; 1st Printing. 0743272935 . Fine condition with almost no usage showing. Very easy spine crease. Text is clean/tight. Includes Reading Group Guide in rear. Front cover has round sticker stating The New Selection of Oprah's Book Club. Free gift wrapping, card and drop shipping. Let us know the occasion and message. ; 51/4x81/4; 357 pages .

Washington Square Press. Very Good. 2004. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 0743272935 . Book is in very good condition and does show some minor edge wear. Please See Photographs .

London: Penguin Books, 1960. First Penguin Edition . Very Good. 4.25 x 7 inches (11 x 18 cm). Slight rubbing to spine, light browning to page edges and margins otherwise very clean throughout. Overall condition is Very Good. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.20; USA £18.10; Oceania £18.05; Rest of World £15.85. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 4.25 x 7 inches (11 x 18 cm). Paperback. Printed pages: 311

New York : Pocket Books, 1970. 71st edition in this form. Paperback. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 260 pages; Description: 260 p. ; 17 cm. Subjects: Farmers' spouses -- Married women -- Farm life -- China -- Fiction. Series: Pocket Books - 75c ; 75351.

International Collectors Library. Fine with no dust jacket. 1949. Hardcover. First thus editon. Bound in the Rafael Palacios faux leather binding with the scarce International Collectors library notes sheet laid in the book. Free of former owner writing or bookplates. Top edge is gilt along with gilt design/lettering to front board and spine. Publisher's attached ribbon marker. Unlike the more common issues this copy states: ILC American Headquarters on title page. Cp is 1949, assume actual date is circa mid 60s. * (this book is in our possession. We ship most books six days a week and will confirm with tracking number for domestic orders or customs number for non domestic) . ; 8vo .

Pocket Books. Very Good. 1939. First Edition; Third Printing. Mass Market. Very Good 3rd printing Sept. 1939 with the laminate just starting to peel a little and light cover edgewear. A nice bright square volume. 348 pages, unmarked. [dp50 0816]. ; Shlf DPEC; 348 pages .

Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1932 First Thus with September 1933 ad to rear cover. The Tauchnitz Edition # 5056. A 350 page paperback. A good copy with soiling to the covers as shown, text clean. See Photos bx 103 / E

NY: INTERNATIONAL COLLECTORS LIBRARY, 1949. FIRST THUS. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. N/A. BOUND IN BRIGHT RED LEATHERETTE WITH GILT LETTERING AND GILT DYED TOP OF TEXTBLOCK THE AUTHOR'S MOST FAMOUS WORK ON LIFE IN CHINA SOLID CLEAN BRIGHT AND UNMARKED A VERY NICE EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK

New York, NY: Washington Square Press, 1963. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/VG, unread w/margin discoloration & trace humidity stains to lower corner of front pages. Illustrated softcover/VG; sound w/rubs to front. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN assigned subsequently. 1931, 2nd novel, winner of the 1932 Pulitzer, translated to some 30 languages, made into a Broadway play and adapted to film, from Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1933) , who, a child of missionaries, grew up in China. An initimate & movinging account of how a poor Anhwrei Chinese peasant farmer Wang Lung improves his standing. Set in time after the fall of the Ching Dynasty, the 1911 establishment of the Republic of China and pre-World War I, when dazzling visions of railroad construction & modernization held sway. Wang Lung, whose children begs on the streetss as he pulls a rickshaw, does rise in social stature to have servants and concubines. In the sequels, Sons and The House Divided,… Read More

New York, London, Toronto, ON, Canada, et al.: Washington Square Press, 1958. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 357 + pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text. Publisher's remainder copy.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap NONE [NONE] 1931. (hardcover) 375pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 12mo. Green cloth, titles in brown stamped to front and spine. There is a strip of tape residue to the front board and the cover shows light wear. The front free endpaper shows a stamp as well as a personal inscription. There is a quotaion penned (neat) to the last page. Internally clean and bright. Pearl S. Buck won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for the Good Earth and was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China' and for her two memoirs (biographies) of her parents who were missionaries there..

The John Day Company. Fair. 1931. Hardcover. Apparent first edition. Binding is shaken but holding. Page are tanned, with small stains on deckled fore-edge. Brown cloth cover has some wear to edges, and has seen a little water on front and spine (affecting front free endpage, but not text). No dustjacket. .

Simon & Schuster, 2017. First printing thus. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover..

This is the softcover stated Pocket Edition from August 1961. Both the cover and the book are in excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc.--and the pages and binding are tight (see photo). **Note: All books listed as FIRST EDITIONS are stated by the publisher in words or number lines--or--only stated editions that include only the publisher and publication date. Check my feedback to see that I sell exactly as I describe.Like New

Reader's Digest Association, 1992. Hard Cover. 8vo, First Thus. Full unabridged version. Book Condition: Very Good. Very clean and tight. No Jacket..

Reader's Digest Association, 1992. Hard Cover. 8vo, First Thus. Full unabridged version. Book Condition: Near Very Good. Slightly cocked. Very clean interior. No Jacket. .

Paper in good condition; some water stains on page edges (please see photo). No tears, no markings, all pages flat.
Cover in very good condition featuring gold lettering and embossed front cover.

New York: MeadWestvaco Corp.. Fine copy in clamshell case. 2005. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 346 pp., Limited edition designed by Karen Elder & John Boyd; foreword by Ned Scharff. .