You are looking at a gently handled hardcover Book Club Edition copy of 

IMPERIAL WOMAN

An historical novel about the last Empress of China

by Pearl S. Buck. This was published by The John Day Company, copyright 1956, and is in very good condition, complete with its dust jacket.  Minor wear and flaws to the dust jacket noted above; otherwise fully intact and in very good condition; book itself excellent; binding solid; covers and all pages intact and in very good condition with very little wear.