The New Year: A Novel, Pearl S. Buck, 1968, 1st Ed., Fine w/Near Fine DJ

Buck, Pearl S. The New Year: A Novel (New York: The John Day Company, 1968).

English, First Edition, a Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket, Fine overall, 8vo, 8 3/4" x 6," 255 pp.

ISBN: N/A

First Edition. Fine brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and small gilt decoration on front and spine. Covers pristine and intact, binding tight, sharp tips. Near Fine multicolored pictorial paper dust jacket with white and yellow lettering on teal spine. Dust jacket has slight bumping along extremities and light age toning, else clean and intact, protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve, not price-clipped. Pages have light age toning, else pristine and intact. Dramatic novel about a politician from Philadelphia named Christopher Winters whose life is upturned when he receives a letter from a young man named Kim Christopher. Winters was once stationed in Korea and met a Korean woman named Soonya. Kim Christopher is their son. Authored by Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), an American author perhaps best-known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Good Earth. Buck had a well-traveled and cultured upbringing when she was raised in China by her parents who were missionaries. Throughout her career, Buck advocated for the civil rights of Chinese nationals, Chinese Americans, and other people of Asian descent. She was also an advocate of women's rights and disability rights, and helped found an organization promoting the adoption of Asian and mixed-race children. Many of her books feature Asian protagonists and Asian cultures.