![[Item #61177] The Chinese Novel: Nobel Lecture Delivered Before the Swedish Academy at Stockholm, December 12, 1938. Pearl S. BUCK.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/61177.jpg?auto=webp&v=1678070227)
The Chinese Novel: Nobel Lecture Delivered Before the Swedish Academy at Stockholm, December 12, 1938
New York: The John Day Company, 1939. First Edition. Advance Issue, one of an unspecified number of copies signed by Buck on the front endpaper, and sent with "Dear Bookseller" letters (roughly a month prior to publication) with the compliments of The John Day Company. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; publisher's slipcase; [ii],[4],5-59,[3]pp, with a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Touch of dust-soil to cloth, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.50), lightly edgeworn, with some light surface wear, and a diagonal crease to rear flap; Very Good+ in like slipcase.
Buck's Nobel Lecture, in which she discusses the origins of the great novels of China and maintains "that it is the Chinese and not the western novel which has shaped her own efforts in writing..." (from front flap).
Price: $1,000.00
