Description
The limited edition of The Story of Dragon Seed, signed by Pearl S. Buck. This short work recounts how Buck came to write Dragon Seed and her contacts with Chinese farmers in Nanking.
Twelvemo, 15pp, [1]. Red cloth, illustration stamped in black on the front panel. Appears unread.
From a limited edition of 600 copies for “Presentation by the East and West Association.”
This copy is signed by Pearl S. Buck on the front free endpaper.
Dragon Seed was first published by The John Day Company in 1942, a wartime novel set in and around Nanking during the Japanese invasion of China. The book was adapted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer into the 1944 film Dragon Seed, starring Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, and Aline MacMahon.
