An assortment of Pearl S. Buck ephemera, including two copies of annotated typescript
Pearl S. Buck Collection.
1930s-70s.
Price: $1,200.00
About the item
Single leaf announcement, folded twice to make three panels; [3] newspaper clippings; staple-bound periodical, 84 pg.; staple-bound periodical, 13 pg. [x2]; unbound pamphlet, unpaginated [x2]; bookmark-style handbill [x2]; single leaf, folded, newspaper clipping reproduction; typescript carbon leaves with manuscript annotations, 11 pg. [x2]. An assortment of Pearl S. Buck ephemera, including two copies of annotated typescript. A near fine collection.
Item #346279
Pearl S. Buck (b.1892 - d.1973) was the daughter of American missionaries to China, and an author whose 1931 novel 'The Good Earth' 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 books 'The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother' and 'Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul', memoirs about her mother and father respectively.
Buck's life was defined by her advocacy for the people of China and shifting western perceptions about that part of the world. This collection has several items pertaining to her early recognition on the heels of her Pulitzer Prize when a luncheon was held for her in New York at the Hotel Astor in 1932. There, she gave her famous speech, "Is There a Case for Foreign Missions?" At the end, the the audience appeared confused and speechless. Initially no one clapped or congratulated her, and Buck later recalled after a few painful moments, a storm of applause arose, but by then her publisher was abruptly escorting her from the room.
Inlcuded here is:
'Luncheon in Honor of Pearl S. Buck at the Hotel Astor, November 2nd, 1932' listing of guests and their table numbers. Pearl S. Buck is listed as Mrs. J. Lossing Buck (her first husband's name) at the speaker's table.
Press clippings-
"WANTS BETTER MISSIONARIES." [World-Tel., November 3, 1932]
"Mission Worker Abroad Vexes Mrs. Pearl Buck" [New York Herald-Tribune, November 3, 1932]
"Mrs. Buck on Foreign Missions" [New York City Mirror, November 4, 1932]
Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Science Bulletin [November 2, 1935]. Announcement of Pearl S. Buck's lecture on December 3, 'Fiction and the Front Page' [pg. 79].
"What About India?" A transcribed conversation between Pearl S. Buck, T.A. Raman, Louis Fischer, and Bertrand Russell. [The American Forum of the Air, Vol. 4, No. 41. October 11, 1942] (x2)
'The New Children' fund-raising pamphlet. [The Pearl S. Buck Foundation, ca. 1970s] (x2)
"Amerasians?" Bookmark-style, red, solicitation mailer. [The Pearl S. Buck Foundation, ca. 1970s] (x2)
Reproduction of a press clipping, 'Pearl Buck's Presence Lingers On.' [The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 16, 1975] Printed as a pamphlet.
The Spearhead. By Pearl S. Buck. [typescript essay carbon copy, annotated in ink in the hand of Pearl S. Buck, undated].
