Pearl S. Buck - Command the Morning, 1959 FIRST EDITION

Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winner, Pearl S. Buck, was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the 20th century. This is a FIRST EDITION of Command the Morning, published in 1959 by John Day Publishing. 

ABOUT THE STORY (Courtesy of Goodreads)
Command the Morning is a story of love and determination and hope, involving the most important topic of our time. It is above all a story of men and women—of scientists pursuing an idea that could benefit all mankind; of generals diverting the emphasis to the destruction of the enemy; of wives suddenly alone and unnoticed in the frenzied struggle to succeed. Command the Morning tells the moving human story behind the headlines and historic drama of the atom bomb. It catches the excitement of man's dream of harnassing a power as great as the sun itself, and it surges ahead to the momentous day that ended a war and plunged mankind into a frightening new era.

BIXLEY NOTES
• Command the Morning
• Written by Pearl S. Buck
• Published by John Day in association with Reynal & Hitchcock, 1959
• FIRST EDITION
• 317 pages
• Original price $4.50
• Linen hardcover with dust jacket

VINTAGE NOTES
• In very good condition.
• Binding has a very slight wobble
• Minor shelf wear on the cover edges
• Dust jacket is quite worn with creases and tears. Front of the dust jacket is almost detached.
• Measures 8 1/4" x 5 3/4"

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (Chinese: 赛珍珠), was an American writer and novelist. In October 1892, her family took the 4-month-old baby girl to China. As the daughter of missionaries to China, and later as a missionary herself, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang. The family spent their summers in a villa in Kuling town, Mountain Lu, Jiujiang, and it was during this annual pilgrimage that the young girl decided to become a writer. The Good Earth was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces." She was the first American woman to win the prize.

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