Beloved by Morrison, Toni - 1987

New York: Knopf, 1987. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Bound in full ivory cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in silver. Fore-edge untrimmed. Quarto. 275pps. First Edition, first printing. A flawless, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is also as new; the original price (18.95) is intact.<br><br><b><font color=#003366> "...Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved..."</b></font><br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. . First Edition. Cloth.