The Chinese Novel: Nobel Lecture Delivered Before the Swedish Academy at Stockholm, December 12, 1938

by Pearl S. Buck

$1,000 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York: The John Day Company, 1939. First Edition. Advance Issue, one of an unspecified number of copies signed by Buck on the front endpaper, and sent with Dear Bookseller letters roughly a month prior to publication with the compliments of The John Day Company. Octavo 22cm ; black cloth, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; red topstain;

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