Hardcover. Condition is Very Good. DJ is Fair, taped on the inside in a couple of places, also chipped and torn hole on backside (see photo) First Thus, Wartime Edition. Ex-Libris with 'Jean Bergen' nameplate on first internal page. Tan vellum boards with blue lettering on front cover and spine. Binding is still strong, pages are intact. There are no markings on the pages, which are uniformly age toned throughout. Overall it's actually in really good shape. 375 pages, 5 1/4"" x 7 3/4"" * This won a Pulitzer Prize for the story about a vanishing China of the 1920's, written in real time by Buck, following an honest farmer and his wife throughout their life cycle, in the universal tale of an ordinary family caught up in the tides of history. The author was eventually named Nobel Laureate as well. If you haven't heard of this classic.you need this!