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The Chinese novel; Nobel lecture delivered before the Swedish Academy at Stockholm, December 12, 1938 / by Pearl S. Buck.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 B8555 939c
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese fiction--History and criticism.
- Chinese fiction.
- Genre:
- Speeches.
- Penn Provenance:
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 59 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The John Day Company, [1939]
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- "Copyright, 1939, by Pearl S. Buck."
- "Designed by Robert Josephy."
- "This lecture, delivered before the Swedish Academy on December 12, 1938, was repeated as a Phi Beta Kappa address at Randolph-Macon College, Lynchburg, Virginia, on April 22, 1939, and is now printed in full in this volume."--Foreword.
- Price from dust-jacket: $1.50.
- Black cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine. Front cover has facsimile of Pearl Buck signature in lower right hand corner. Black and gold dust-jacket. Top edge stained red. Housed in slipcase.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Pearl S. Buck.
- OCLC:
- 625534
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