Description
The signed limited edition of The Selected Works of Pearl S. Buck, the complete 11-volume set, all signed by Pearl S. Buck on the limitation page.
Quarter white leather, paper boards, title printed in gilt on the spine. Top edge gilt on each volume. Most appear unread.
This set, limited to 1000 copies, was created by the John Day Company to honor the eightieth birthday of Pearl S. Buck. All volumes are signed on a limitation page, with each volume numbered 113.
A fine set.
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) wrote over 80 books, including novels, biographies, and children’s literature. Her most famous work, The Good Earth (1931), won the Pulitzer Prize and helped her become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938.
