Product Description
A confirmed first printing of Buck's 1949 novel exploring generational tension and cross-cultural identity among Chinese characters navigating modernity and tradition. Published by John Day, Buck's longtime American publisher, Kinfolk reflects her mature postwar voice - measured, humane, and socially observant. The novel continues the thematic concerns that defined her Nobel Prize-winning career: family loyalty, East-West exchange, and the costs of social transformation. This copy is in Near Fine condition, with bright gilt stamping and strong, clean cloth. Corners remain sharp; binding is square and tight. Interior pages are clean and unmarked, with no ownership signatures or bookplates observed. Mild offsetting is present to the front and rear pastedowns from the absent dust jacket flaps, along with light, even toning to the endpapers consistent with age. No foxing, cracking, or structural weaknesses noted. A desirable true first printing of a later Buck title, increasingly collected in high-grade condition, even without the dust jacket.
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