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FIRST EDITION OF A HOUSE DIVIDED, SIGNED BY NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR PEARL BUCK

BUCK, Pearl S. A House Divided. New York: John Day, (1935). Octavo, original brown cloth, uncut, original dust jacket.

First edition of the third installment in the House of Earth trilogy, signed by Pearl Buck.

The third part of the trilogy that began with The Good Earth and continued with Sons, this novel focuses a young man named Yuan, who goes to an American college, falls in love, and returns home, only to experience the turbulence of China adapting to its first years of Communist rule. In the words of her Chinese translator, a professor of English at Nanjing University, Pearl Buck is “a revolutionary? Many of us feel we should include Buck as part of Chinese literature” (New York Times Book Review).

Book fine, price-clipped dust jacket unusually bright and clean with only two small unobtrusive fingers-smudges. A beautiful signed copy.