BUCK, PEARL S. THE GOOD EARTH. 8vo, original cloth; dust jacket, very minor wear at ends of spine panel; 1/4 morocco slipcase. New York,

(1931) FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "flees" for "fleas" in line 17 on page 100. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BUCK on the half-title: "To Mrs. H. Kanti this book is inscribed by Pearl S. Buck "It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness" --Chinese proverb. [signed with Buck's Chinese signature stamp].".