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NY: John Day Co Pub. Very Good. 1956. HARDCOVER. HARDCOVER. 6x8". VERY GOOD CONDITION CLEAN, SOLID COPY; BlACK SPINE titles on RUST RED CLOTH hard covers..; Farm Scene Title Page small Ilust; 346pg pages; Pulitzer Author, Nobel Laureate. Many of her stories deal with Chinese culture. SPINE STRIP has 1x3" sun & fields artwok . Clean, Solid copy .

New York: The John Day Company, 1956. Book Club Edition . Hard Back. Very Good/Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 402 Pages. When Pearl S. Buck finished writing her autobiographical work, My Several Worlds, she found that the most vivid character memory of her childhood life was Tzu Hsi, the last Empress of China. This is the woman usually known to Westerners as the Empress Dowager, or "Old Buddha." But how little the West really knows of her! She has figured in an occasional book, but never before in English, nor indeed in any language so far as we know, has the whole story of this fabulous woman been told. She ranks in history with Victoria of England and Catherine of Russia. Indeed, Tzu Hsi liked to think of Victoria as her sister-ruler and often remarked that they divided the world between them, Victoria the Empress of the West and she the Empress of the East. Of the two, however, Tzu Hsi had the more romantic and extraordinary reign. She was born into violent and troubled times, in the last… Read More

John Day, New York 1956 . No other dates. VG+/VG- Rare edition in Rare DJ. Collectible copy of hard to find book in early printing. Burnt orange hardcover in VG + condition . Slight bumping to spines. Light shelf wear to edges and corners. Tight, clean copy. A few tiny spots on first fly leaf, otherwise no marks , no book plate, no P O, no stickers, no foxing, no smells. DJ shows wear. Tears at top and bottom of spine as well corners and edges. Statement by Sterling North on the back of DJ, "In Defense of the Novel".Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriquing rulers during a time of intense turbulence. Tzu Hsi - Empress of China, in youth a beautiful concubine, in middle life a brilliant strategist, in old age a goddess. Tzu Hsi was feared and hated by many in the court but adored by the people. The Empress's rise to power parallels the story of China's transition from the ancient to modern way.