Pavilion of Women by Buck, Pearl S - 1946

John Day Company. Fair in Poor dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. The dust jacket is torn and worn, used it just to get the picture, will include it with the book. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages and binding are tight. Maroon top-stained page edges. Pages are rough cut on middle page ends. ; Book Club Edition; Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages; The first owner of the book has put her name inside the cover. The date she got the book was Dec. 1946. There is a 10 page booklet "Wings" from "The Literary Guild Review" of this book, glued to the first page. The famous portrait painter and muralist -Malthe Hasselriis was hired to do the illustrations in the review of the book.. Malthe Hasselriis was the artist that did the exquisite wallpaper on the endpages. The story of Madame Wu, a woman whose surprising decision to retire from married life and select a concubine for her husband upsets her extended household. "A searching, adult study of women written with high seriousness and sympathy. " - The New York Times Book Review. Will combine shipping on more than one book. .