Words of Love by Buck, Pearl S - 1974

New York: The John Day Company, 1974. Book. Illus. by Book and Jacket Design by Jeanyee Wong. NF. Hardcover. First Edition. 48pp, each poem illustrated in black and white from art and artifacts held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acknowledgments. Black cloth decorated and lettered in silver, dj lightly worn at head of spine, half inch closed tear. NF/Good +. A selection of poems written by the author over her lifetime and largely kept in her 'treasure book', the journal she kept for her intimate words and thoughts. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973) was a prize winning American author who grew up in China until 1934. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for her novel, The Good Earth. In 1938 she became one of the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces." In 1935 she married Richard Walsh the publisher of The John Day Company which would henceforward be her principal publisher. Her Chinese name was Sai Zhenzhu. A major biography, Pearl Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter Conn of the University of Pennsylvaniia was published about her in 1996 by the Cambridge University Press. Jeanyee Wong (1920- ) is a master calligrapher who has designed, illustrated and lettered over 2000 dust jackets and more than forty books over the last seventy years. On her 90th birthday in July 2010 she gave a celebratory lecture at the Grolier Club in New York..