[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Advance First Edition of Pearl Buck's Pulitzer Prize novel: THE GOOD EARTH

[Charles Agvent]

 From our just posted new catalog, the entirety of which can be seen at
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BUCK, Pearl. THE GOOD EARTH. New York: The John Day Company, (1931). 
First Edition. ADVANCE REVIEW COPY, one of only 125 in wrappers 
replicating the design of the dustwrapper. With the first issue point on 
page 100. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the 
half-title page: "For Kenneth Meeker/Pearl S. Buck." Tipped in between 
the front endpaper and the half-title page is the scarce publisher's 
four-page advertising flyer for the book offering publicity tips for 
selling and displaying the book. Meeker was an editor at John Day at the 
time of publication who went on to work in the Franklin Roosevelt 
Administration as an aide and ambassador. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, 
THE GOOD EARTH describes the life of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant whose 
love of the land sustains him through years of hardship. The book is the 
first in a series of three novels called THE HOUSE OF EARTH, which also 
includes SONS (1932) and A HOUSE DIVIDED (1935). THE GOOD EARTH also 
became a successful motion picture and was awarded the Howells medal of 
the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Buck also won the 1938 Nobel 
Prize for Literature largely based on the success of this book, the 
first American woman to be awarded both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes 
for literature, an honor she would hold until 1993. Housed in a red 
cloth chemise and a red half morocco slipcase with some wear to the 
spine. Some expected wrinkling to the spine from the glue used in 
binding. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase and quite scarce. $15,000.00

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