BUCK, Pearl S.

The Good Earth

First edition, first issue. A couple of spots on the spine, spine lettering tarnished, a very good or better copy in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks at the corners and a little soiling on the front panel. Housed in a custom morocco and cloth clamshell case. The author's best-known book, the first part of her House of Earth trilogy, and the book most responsible for her becoming the first American female writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Adapted first for the stage in 1933 (with Claude Rains and Nazimova in the leads), and then as an epic film by producer Irving Thalberg starring Paul Muni and Oscar winner Luise Rainer. A very nice copy of this elusive Pulitzer Prize winner that has become rare in jacket.

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