Words of Love: Illustrated
New York: The John Day Company, 1974. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Very Good / Good. Item #2325448
ISBN: 0381982637
First edition. Multiple small chips and small tears to jacket edges, jacket reverse lightly foxed. Front free endpaper missing.
48 pp. Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her parents were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, most often stationed in China, and from childhood, Pearl spoke both English and Chinese. She returned to China shortly after graduation from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1914, and the following year, she met a young agricultural economist named John Lossing Buck. They married in 1917, and immediately moved to Nanhsuchou in rural Anhwei province. In this impoverished community, Pearl Buck gathered the material that she would later use in The Good Earth and other stories of China.
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