The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the Former Tongues; And With the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, By His Majesty’s Special Command.

[BUCK, Pearl S.].

$5,000.00

Item Number: 146078

London: The British & Foreign Bible Society/Cambridge University Press, 1928.

Early 20th century Bible. Octavo, original publisher’s limp black crushed morocco-textured wraps, all edges gilt. Signed and dated by the masterful writer and novelist Pearl S. Buck on the verso of the front free endpaper, “Pearl S. Buck 1928.” Additionally lengthily inscribed and dated by Buck on the front flyleaf with a 28-line quote from the end of Fannie Stearns Davis’s short story, ‘A Possession,’ beginning at “Then presently” and ending at “much to know.” Signed bookplate from Buck’s daughter to the rear pastedown, “This book is from the library of my mother, Pearl S. Buck. Jean Walsh Lippincott.” In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities. A rare and unique example.

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.