A SILK ROAD JOURNEY: THE GOOD EARTH by Pearl S. Buck. Together With Music on CD from The Silk Road. Foreword: 'A Silk Road Journey' by Ned Scharff. Stamford, Connecticut: MeadWestvaco Corporation, 2005. Limited, Deluxe Gift Edition, privately printed and produced for presentation at Christmas, 2005. A Silk Road Journey CD of instrumentals and vocals, composed by Cyril Morin for Samsara and by Dadon Dawadoima, orchestra by the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra, produced exclusively as a feature accompaniment for THE GOOD EARTH. Buck earned the Pulitzer Prize for this outstanding novel and garnered the Nobel Prize in Literature for her depiction of Chinese peasant life and culture. An impressively beautiful book production. Crisp and fine in red linen with gilt embossed Chinese emblem to the front and rear covers, gilt embossed titles and Chinese emblem to the spine, red-and-yellow headband and tail-band, color illustrated end-papers; housed in a fine brocade decorated red linen, brass hinged box with fine CD secured in place to the inside of the front closing box lid, golden ribbed book-pull ribbon still intact to the seated inner box lining, gilt titles to the box opening side panels; still housed in the original decorated and printed folding carton stock mailing case with black printed titles, publisher's address and printed sticker to the front panel. Octavo; 346 pages; 3 pages of MeadWestvaco's Classic series titles list; glossary of Chinese characters and symbols; brief chronological biography of Pearl S. Buck.
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