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John Day Pub. Very Good. 1948,1949. HARDCOVER. HARDCOVER. 6x8". VERY GOOD Condition, clean, solid, bright; Gols spine & cover titles with sun over fields cover art 2x3"...all on pleasant textured brown cloth hard covers.. ; 406pg pages; Pulitzer Author, Nobel Laureate. Many of her stories deal with Chinese culture..."figures contemporary with their ancestors" .

New York: John Day Company, 1949. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. Some light staining to top page edge in a particularly nice jacket.

New York: John Day Company, 1949. Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. BCE. Buck's longest novel and filled with diverse characters, of post-WW2 China and the extended family of Dr. Liang, some of whom experience life and work in New York City. Hardcover with dust jacket, 406pp., d.j. is intact and bright but shows edgewear and tape repairs. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Very good condition original hardcover. Dust jacket in Fair condition as shown.

New York: The John Day Company (c1948, 1949) The cast of characters is immense, mostly Chinese with a scattering of Americans and Europeans. The scenes alternate between New York and China, with a glimpse of London. The time is now. The story begins after the war and ends in 1948, year of inflation, struggle and portent. Those people in their endless variety are in this book....all of them, villain and hero, poet and peasant, rebel and scholar, male and female. The Kinfolk who give the book its title are the family of the famous Dr. Liang... The familiar rust brown boards with gilt embossed design to front board and spine containing the title. No ownership markings. Untrimmed fore edge. A bright, square copy in a price-intact illustrated dust jacket. A very nice copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.