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ADVANCE READING COPY OF PEARL BUCK'S PULITZER PRIZE WINNER. BUCK, PEARL S. 1892-1973. The Good E...

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MARCONI GUGLIELMO: (1874-1937): MARCONI GUGLIELMO: (1874-1937) Italian Inventor, developed a radio telegraph system. Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1909. A fine T.L.S., `G. MarconiÂ´, a good and bold signature example, one page,

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BRAGG WILLIAM HENRY: (1862-1942): BRAGG WILLIAM HENRY: (1862-1942) English Physicist, Chemist & Mathematician, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1915. T.L.S., W H Bragg, one page, 4to, Albemarle Street, London, 13th February 1929, to A.

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Oscar Wilde Twice Signed Book "Reading Gaol" 1898: Up for auction is an extremely rare 1898 copy of â€œThe Ballad of Reading Gaol” signed twice by author Oscar Wilde. The book is in excellant condition for its age and has a store tag from a

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Buchanan Sends Thanks for Bucks Head - A Play Off His Name: Buchanan Sends Thanks for Bucks Head - A Play Off His Name A rare letter written by James Buchanan as President. 1p, measuring 6.5" x 8", Washington, D.C., dated March 26, 1857. Signed "James Buchanan

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ADVANCE READING COPY OF PEARL BUCK'S PULITZER PRIZE WINNER. BUCK, PEARL S. 1892-1973. The Good E...

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ADVANCE READING COPY OF PEARL BUCK'S PULITZER PRIZE WINNER. BUCK, PEARL S. 1892-1973. The Good Earth. New York: The John Day Company, 1931. 8vo. Publisher's pictorial wrappers printed in brown on tan paper, inside of wrappers printed in green, pre-publication insert laid in to front free endpaper. Handling wear, wrapper somewhat wrinkled on spine, minor soiling and staining, lacking wrap-around band. ADVANCE READING COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, bearing the identifying points of a first edition: 'John Day Publishing Company' on copyright page, and 'flee' for 'flea' on p 100, line 17. Approximately 125 advance copies were printed. This was Buck's most important work, the best-selling novel for 1931 and 1932, winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize, and instrumental in her 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature. With a clipping of Buck's short story 'The Miracle Child,' excerpted from Good Housekeeping, loosely inserted. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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ADVANCE READING COPY OF PEARL BUCK'S PULITZER PRIZE WINNER. BUCK, PEARL S. 1892-1973. The Good E...

Name: ADVANCE READING COPY OF PEARL BUCK'S PULITZER PRIZE WINNER. BUCK, PEARL S. 1892-1973. The Good E...
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