Pearl S Buck The Good Earth
Franklin Library, Pennsylvania 1980, 1980. Illustrated by Barron Story. Franklin Library, Pennsylvania 1980. Leatherette, 22 kt. gold accents and lettering, printed with acid neutral pages that are thread sewn, not glued together. The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a Chinese village in the early 20th century. It is the first book in her House of Earth trilogy, continued in Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935). It was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, and was influential in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. (wiki)
Illustrated by Barron Story. Near Mint / NO DJ as issued. Item #943
Franklin Library, Pennsylvania 1980. Near Mint, Leatherette, 22 kt. gold accents and lettering, printed with acid neutral pages that are thread sewn, not glued together, gold gilded page edges to further protect the pages, raised spine bands that give each volume that distinctive antique look, decorated end paper. NO DJ as issued. Great Gift Giving.
Price: $75.00