New York: John Day Company, (1949).
Price: $450.00
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 206pp. Spine lettering rubbed, very good in very good price-clipped dustwrapper with modest chipping, mostly at the spine ends. A dialogue and debate about America between Nobel Prize-winner Buck and Robeson, anthropologist, author, and the wife of Paul Robeson. Warmly Inscribed by Robeson: "For Harry Marinski [sic?]: It will be great fun if you are my next collaborator. Sincerely, Essie. Enfield, Conn. Mar. 1949." The recipient is likely Harry Marinsky, a Russian émigré artist, watercolorist, and art editor at two popular magazines.
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Pearl S. Buck
birth name: Pearl Sydenstricker
born: 6/26/1892
died: 3/6/1973
nationality: USA