Pavilion of Women.

BUCK, Pearl S.

$250.00

Item Number: 146226

New York: The John Day Company, 1946.

First edition of this incredible novel. Octavo, original cloth with black titles and an orange boat stamped to the front panel, top stain red, pictorial endpapers. Boldly signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “Pearl S. Buck ’46.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some tears.

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Good Earth.' In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces," two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents. She was also an activist and prominent advocate of the rights of women and racial equality, writing widely on Chinese and Asian cultures and becoming well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoption. Of 'Pavilion of Women,' Buck has said, "These women happen to be Chinese, but women are women, anywhere, especially when they are face to face with men. Men are invariable."