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Peony
by Buck, Pearl S
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York; (1948): John Day. First Edition. Octavo. . 312 pages. Inscribed by Pearl Buck on the title page. An important novel by Pearl Buck, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize. While Peony is written in the realist style of Buck's earlier works, such as the Good Earth, it is distinctive in showing not only the lives and cultural practices of the Jews and their amazing assimilation into China while elsewhere they were castigated or as in the case of Nazi German marked for extermination. A near fine copy bound in brown cloth stamped in gilt, spine gilt, in near fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
Synopsis
Oriental Novels of Peal S. Buck Series
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025604
- Title
- Peony
- Author
- Buck, Pearl S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Day
- Place of Publication
- New York; (1948)
- Keywords
- Jews in China, Fiction; Role of Women in China, Fiction Signed Inscribed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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