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BUCK, PEARL S. The Good Earth. 8vo, gold cloth stamped in gold and blind, vertical slub to cloth at top of front cover, stamping burnished along spine, few other minor surface marks; some glue remnants on endpapers; dust jacket, flap corners clipped, spine panel browned and ends chipped, folds and edges toned, some tears and chips at folds and corners, cellotape or residual glue remnants mostly on verso, but some visible on flaps, two early paper repairs along spine verso at head; (original?) glassine over-wrapper, partially chipped. New York: John Day, (1931)
first edition, first issue, of buck's most famous work, in the scarce dust jacket. This was the first part of her "House of Earth" trilogy, and the title most responsible for her becoming the first American female writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
