The Water-Buffalo Children

NY: John Day. NEAR FINE book, VG DJ. Edgeworn DJ, 1/4" wear chips & a 1" tear.. (1943). 1st edition. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). FINE text & illustrations. Attractive DJ complete with $1.50 price. 8vo, 60pp. . DJ with few minor flaws: (1)tips & spine ends rubbed. (2) Pastedowns faintly glue browned. (3) Neatly inked 6 line… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: The John Day Company. Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket toned and heavily tattered and missing . large section from lower jacket panel.. 1943. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. Gray pictorial boards. A charming story from the Nobel Prize winner's childhood in China. Illustrated endpapers and many other illustrations throughout the text by William Arthur Smith. ;… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: The John Day Company,, 1943. First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Jackie, with affection and good wishes, Pearl S. Buck". This work, uncommonly found inscribed, aimed to introduce American children to the China that Buck had long known and loved. Further information on the recipient has unfortunately proved elusive. Octavo.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Methuen, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 1945. First Edition. 53 pages. No dust jacket. Decorative beige cloth. Colour illustrations throughout. 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. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1945. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1945. First Edition. 53 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over yellow cloth with decorations. Colour illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has moderate… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: John Day Company, 1943. 1st American printing; dj w/ chipping; unclipped price, in mylar; cram c w/brown decorations/titles; lite wear at extremities; illustrated end papers; owner's name; 61 clean, unmarked pages. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by William Arthur Smith. 12 vo.

New York: John Day, 1943. Nice copy of this first edition of Pearl S. Buck's tale of the author's adventure while a child in China with a possibly magic stone, the Big Turnip and the Buffalo Children, illustrated throughout by William A. Smith. Binding is ivory with gold design and gold type on cover and spine. In Very Good condition.… Saber más sobre este artículo

John Day Company, 1943. hardcover. Fair/None. 9x6x1. William Arthur Smith. Unmarked hardcover no jacket. Spine worn with a tape repair. Scuff on decorated front cover. Owner's bookplate inside front cover.