Pearl S. Buck - Fighting Angel, 1936 FIRST EDITION

Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winner, Pearl S. Buck, was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the 20th century. This is a FIRST EDITION of Come My Beloved, published in 1953 by John Day Publishing.

ABOUT THE STORY (Courtesy of Amazon)
The biography of the father of Pearl S. Buck. "A vigorous biography of the author's father, a lonely adventurer ranging the turbulent interior of old China through the hazards of famine, banditry and revolution." from the cover of the first edition, published in 1936.

BIXLEY NOTES
• Fighting Angel
• Written by Pearl S. Buck
• Published by John Day in association with Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936
• FIRST EDITION
• 302 pages
• Linen hardcover with dust jacket

VINTAGE NOTES
• In very good condition.
• Binding is nice and tight
• Slight wear on the hardcover
• Dust jacket is torn and creased along the edges (see photographs)
• Inscribed on the inside front page

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (Chinese: 赛珍珠), was an American writer and novelist. In October 1892, her family took the 4-month-old baby girl to China. As the daughter of missionaries to China, and later as a missionary herself, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang. The family spent their summers in a villa in Kuling town, Mountain Lu, Jiujiang, and it was during this annual pilgrimage that the young girl decided to become a writer. The Good Earth was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces." She was the first American woman to win the prize.

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