Pearl Buck First Edition 1945 Portrait Of A Marriage Pre - War America HC W/DJ
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Hardcover. 8vo. John Day, New York. 1945. 224 pgs. Illustrated.Pictorial endpapers.First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (light chipping present to the crown of the DJ spine, small chip present to the front panel). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn. At the turn of the century, an upper-class painter from Philadelphia goes searching for inspiration. He finds his mu...se on a farm—the farmer’s beautiful and humble daughter. His portrait of her becomes one of his most inspired works, but his passion for the illiterate girl doesn’t stop at the easel: He returns to marry her and settle down to country life—a journey that means bridging enormous gaps between their cultures, breaking from his parents, and creating tension between their friends. Pearl S. Buck compassionately imagines both sides of the complex marriage, and in addition, creates a wonderfully vivid picture of America leading up to the Second World War. Pearl Buck First Edition 1945 Portrait of a Marriage Pre-War America HC w/DJ
