PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED MANUSCRIPT SIGNED 1940 - HFSID 28001
Price: $900.00
PEARL BUCK
She writes book reviews, adding handwritten annotations in the
margins. Multi-signed.
Typed Manuscript signed three times: "PSB" on last
page, 6p, 8½x11. Titled Asia column, this text is a lively review of
several books about Asia. Pencil note (unknown hand) at top of page 1: "October,
1940, Book-Shelf". Pages 1-5 are a coherent essay, unsigned, but bearing
numerous ink revisions in Buck's hand, with her name typed at the end. An
unnumbered page contains three additional, brief reviews, each initialed by
Buck. The books reviewed are The Dream We Lost, by Freda Utley; The
Pacific Ocan, by Felix Riesenberg; Suez and Panama, by Andre
Siegfried; and, more briefly, China Then and Now by Jean Escarra,
Approach to the Hills by C. F. Meade, and Escape with Me by Osbert
Sitwell. Buck lauds most of these works, while tactfully dismissing the others
with faint praise. (Escarra's book is "workmanlike"; Sitwell is "a discerning
tourist.") Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), born to Presbyterian missionaries,
spent the first forty years of her life in China, the setting of many of her
books. Her second novel, The Good Earth, won the 1932 Pulitzer
Prize, and Buck also won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature for her epic works
about China. She later wrote about other Asian nations, including India and
Korea. Staple holes in upper left. Slightly soiled. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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