Pearl S. Buck Autographs, Memorabilia & Collectibles
PEARL S. BUCK
Born: June 26, 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia
Died: March 6, 1973 in Danby, Vermont
Died: March 6, 1973 in Danby, Vermont
Biography
Buck (1892-1973) was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1938). Best known for her novels about China (including The Good Earth; 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), Buck wrote over 70 novels as well as biographies, an autobiography (My Several Worlds, 1954), dramas, children's literature and translations from the Chinese.
1962-Satan-Never-Sleeps (Writer), 1959-The-Twentieth-Century (in person), 1957-The-Tex-and-Jinx-Show (in person), 2001-Pavilion-of-Women (Writer), 1965-Guide (Writer), 1957-Robert-Montgomery-Presents (Writer), The-Alcoa-Hour (Writer), 1977-The-Gift (Writer), 1954-Da-di (Writer), 1945-China-Sky (Writer), 1937-The-Good-Earth (Writer), 1937-The-Good-Earth (Producer), 1937-The-Good-Earth (Other), 1937-The-Good-Earth (in person), 1956-Person-to-Person (in person), 1961-The-Big-Wave (Writer), 1944-Dragon-Seed (Writer), 1961-The-Big-Wave (Producer), 1961-The-Big-Wave (Other), 1971-The-David-Frost-Show (in person), 1971-Today (in person), 1966-The-Mike-Douglas-Show (in person), 1958-The-Mike-Wallace-Interview (in person)
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PEARL S. BUCK - ANNOTATED TYPED MANUSCRIPT UNSIGNED - HFSID 28002PEARL BUCK Pearl Buck makes revisions to a review of THE GREAT CHALLENGEby Louis Fischer. Anotated typed manuscript, unsigned, 3p, 8½x11. Titled: "THE GREAT CHALLENGE/By Louis Fischer/Review by Pearl S. Buck". Pencil title added: "All Peoples Alike". Buck has made ink revisions to her review of Fischer's book.Sale Price $450.00
$500.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 169345PEARL S. BUCK The First American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature signs this sheet of paper Signature: "Pearl S. Buck", 5¾x8½ sheet. 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.
Sale Price $162.00
$180.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - AUTOGRAPH 10/23/1965 CO-SIGNED BY: FRANKLIN CLARK FRY - HFSID 18488PEARL S. BUCK and FRANKLIN CLARK FRY Pearl S. Buck and Franklin Clark Fry sign an album leaf. Signature: "Pearl S. Buck/October23/1965" and on verso, "Franklin Clark Frey/4 Oct. 1965". Buck's signature is above a small magazine photo of her, while Fry's is above an Oct.
Sale Price $162.00
$180.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - AUTOGRAPH CIRCA 1950 - HFSID 18491PEARL S. BUCK Buck's signature in pencil, circa 1950, on letterhead from WFIL at the Widener Building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Signature: "Pearl S. Buck" in pencil. Also signed "Nov. 30-1950" in upper right corner in unknown hand in black ink. 8½x11, on letterhead from WFIL, Widener Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Sale Price $162.00
$180.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED - HFSID 13997PEARL S. BUCK Book review - handwritten and signed "P S B" - for First Set in China. This document reveals a facet of Buck's life forgotten by many: reviewer and essay writer. Autograph manuscript signed: "P S B" in blue ink, with editorial marks and corrections in blue and black ink, 1 page, 8½x11.
Sale Price $637.50
$750.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED - HFSID 14088Book review - handwritten and signed "P.S.B." by Buck - for China Under the Empress Dowager. This is a subject that Buck had some experience with, as she lived in China during the last years of the Empress Doawager Tzu Hsi's reign.
Sale Price $637.50
$750.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 04/08/1938 - HFSID 31217Buck handwrote, signed and dated this rare letter in 1938 about a play that she was writing, The Crystal Heart. In it, she says that she's completely re-written the last act of the play and that it's "much better and tighter". Letters handwritten and signed by Buck are extremely rare.
Sale Price $595.00
$700.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED - HFSID 14087This undated manuscript - handwritten and signed "P.S.B." by Buck - is a book review of John W. Vauderwork's King Cane, An Epic of Sugar. Buck praises the book and Hawaii's sugar industry, which she writes is "an almost perfect picture of what can and should be done in a modern industry". This document reveals a facet of Buck's life forgotten by many: reviewer and essay writer.
Sale Price $637.50
$750.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT UNSIGNED - HFSID 251392PEARL S. BUCK Two very rare handwritten, autograph manuscript pages from Buck's short story The Rainbow Autograph manuscript unsigned. 2 pages, 8½x11, ruled paper. Titled on first page: "The Rainbow". This is from a short story entitled The Rainbow.
Sale Price $1,020.00
$1,200.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED - HFSID 255428PEARL S. BUCK Handwritten note from the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Autograph note signed: "To Ida Tarbell,/with admiration and affection,/Pearl S. Buck.", 4½x4. PEARL SYDENSTRICKER BUCK (1892-1973) was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1938).
Sale Price $288.00
$320.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 254964PEARL S. BUCK The Pulitzer Prize winning author signs this photograph of herself in a contemplative pose Photograph inscribed and signed: "With best wishes/to Herr Karl/Hardt,/I am Yours Sincerely/Pearl S. Buck".
Sale Price $405.00
$450.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - BIOGRAPHY SIGNED - HFSID 169598PEARL S. BUCK The Pulitzer Prize winning author signs this biographical sketch Printed Biography signed: "Pearl S. Buck", 8p, 7¾x9½. Titled: "A Biographical Sketch of Pearl S. Buck".
Sale Price $288.00
$320.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - CLIPPED SIGNATURE - HFSID 41646PEARL S. BUCK The Nobel Prize Winner's clipped signature from the closing of a letter. Clipped Signature: "Pearl S. Buck", 4½x1 sheet clipped from letter, with the typed lines "Yours cordially,/[signature]/Pearl S. Buck".
Sale Price $162.00
$180.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - FRAGMENT SIGNED - HFSID 18489PEARL S. BUCK This fragment is the salutation and mailing address of a typed letter, signed by Buck, to the Director of Special Events at KMLA Broadcasting Corporation. Fragment signed "Pearl S. Buck", 7¼x3. Clipped salutation and mailing address of undated typed letter signed by Buck, addressed to George R. Sanders, Jr.
Sale Price $162.00
$180.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - PICTURE POST CARD SIGNED - HFSID 32916Postcard photo (3½x5½) of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel awards, signed by Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck, who won the Nobel Prize In Literature in 1938. Accompanied by four 5¢ Buck sheet stamps.
Sale Price $306.00
$340.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/05/1967 - HFSID 18490PEARL S. BUCK Her signed letter regarding "new" China, which had been founded 17 years prior. It would take the US another 13 years before it recognized the Republic of China. Typed letter signed: "Pearl S. Buck", 1p, 7¼x10½. Perkasie, Pennsylvania, 1967 January 5.
Sale Price $405.00
$450.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/23/1947 - HFSID 43668Buck signed this typed letter to a fellow author in Stamford, Connecticut in 1947. Buck had passed a book from the recipient of this letter on to a publisher; in this letter, she passes on the publisher's rejection of the book.
Sale Price $405.00
$450.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/26/1965 - HFSID 154971PEARL BUCK The Nobel Prize winner writes to the Salvation Army, dated in 1965. Typed Letter signed: Pearl S. Buck", 1p, 7¼x10½. Perkasie, Pennsylvania, 1965 January 26.
Sale Price $337.50
$375.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 02/04/1941 - HFSID 257544PEARL S. BUCK Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck signed this letter on her personalized letterhead in 1941, asking the recipient toexpress the measure of your sympathy for a brave and democratic people" - probably the Chinese, who were fighting Japan. This letter was written 10 months before the United State's entry into World War II.
Sale Price $467.50
$550.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 02/26/1953 - HFSID 218210PEARL S. BUCK "I once wrote a book…What America Means to Me." TLS: "Pearl S. Buck" over her typed married name "(Mrs. Richard J. Walsh)", 1p, 7¼x10½. Perkasie, Pennsylvania, 1953 February 26.
Sale Price $405.00
$450.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 03/10/1972 - HFSID 165859Buck signed this typed letter - embossed with her Danby, Vermont address - in 1972 to someone in Indianapolis, Indiana who visited Asia. Buck, who grew up in China, notes in this letter how Asia is an "interesting contrast".
Sale Price $270.00
$300.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 03/22/1946 - HFSID 4173PEARL S. BUCK The Pulitzer Prize winning author write a letter in her position as President of the East and West Association TLS: "Pearl S. Buck," 1p, 8½x11. New York, 1946 March 22. On stationery of The East and West Association (Pearl S.
Sale Price $360.00
$400.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 03/26/1936 - HFSID 266432PEARL S. BUCK She thanks a Brooklyn writer for contacting her and offers to review one of his novels. Typed letter signed: "Pearl S. Buck", ¼p, 7¼x10½. New York City, 1936 March 26. To Milton Bernstein, Brooklyn, New York.
Sale Price $337.50
$375.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 05/29/1948 - HFSID 169281PEARL S. BUCK She responds to a fan of her work, thanking him for liking her novel Peony. Typed letter signed: "Pearl S. Buck", 1p, 7¼x10½. Perkasie, Pennsylvania, 1948 May 29. On imprinted letterhead to Mr. Wes Baleria, Los Angeles, California.
Sale Price $405.00
$450.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 06/21/1946 - HFSID 161396In this typed letter, signed by Buck in 1946, the Nobel-winning author recommends a Filipino actor for an Asian role in a play. Buck is best known for her novels, but also wrote plays.
Sale Price $337.50
$375.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 06/27/1966 - HFSID 155081PEARL S. BUCK Buck signed this typed letter in 1966 to thank someone in Albuquerque for his birthday wishes to her. Typed letter signed "Pearl S. Buck". 1 page, 7¼x10½, on stationery imprinted with Perkasie, Pennsylvania rural route address. June 27, 1966. Addressed to William W.
Sale Price $270.00
$300.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 12/04/1954 - HFSID 41888Buck signed this typed letter in 1954 to a New York fan. The recipient of this letter, like Buck, was an adoptive parent and a stranger in a strange land, and she expressed the deepest sympathies for his plights.
Sale Price $337.50
$375.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 12/09/1968 - HFSID 252434PEARL S. BUCK She thanks a friend for sending a Christmas Card. Typed letter signed: "Pearl S. Buck", 1p, 7¼x10½. Perkasie, Pennsylvania, 1968 December 9. On imprinted letterhead to Mr. John Buchanan, Markham, Ontario, Canada.
Sale Price $337.50
$375.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 12/13/1968 - HFSID 277586PEARL S. BUCK Buck signed this typed letter to a professor in Commerce, Texas in 1968, thanking him for the warm reception she got at East Texas State University and offering to autograph her books for him. Typed letter signed "Pearl S. Buck".
Sale Price $270.00
$300.00
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 12/26/1940 - HFSID 35807PEARL BUCK She sends a plea to raise money for China Relief Fund to help China resist [Japanese] aggression Typed Letter signed: "Pearl S. Buck", 1p, 4½x6¾. New York, N.Y., 1940 December 26. On personal letterhead to "My dear Mr. Coblentz".
Sale Price $450.00
$500.00
