Published by The Ember Press, 1994
Seller: Shore Books, London, United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 124 pages. David Goodall "On The Perils Of Trying To Write Poetry" / Jenni Meredith "Black Writing in Britain - review of 4 day festival" / Richard Monte "The Contented" 9(short story) / Edward Lowbury "The Crucible Of Translation" (U.P.).
Published by The John Day Company, New York, 1944
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Signed
Cloth. Condition: Fine. 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. (illustrator). Limited Edition. 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. Signed.