Corregidora by Jones, Gayl

Random House Publishing, 1975. 1. Hardcover. Good. Good++ in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Stated "First Edition" with the number line: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 (first printing in this context); Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, just mild edgwear, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Right and bottom textblock edges are unblemished with moderate-to-heavy foxing to the top textblock edge; The endpapers and text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 0.8 lbs; White dust jacket with photo of brick wall, and title in dark brown lettering; 1975, Random House Publishing; 185 pages; "Corregidora," by Gayl Jones.

New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 185 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine beige with brown lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "6.95." Dust jacket shows light shelfwear and toning. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Glue at gutter of half-title beginning to separate. Shelved in case 2. Edited by Toni Morrison during her tenure at Random House, during which she read the manuscript for Corregidora and stated: "no novel about any black woman could ever be the same after this." Corregidora contains difficult themes of generational trauma, preservation of memory, domestic and sexual violence, and womanhood and motherhood and was highly praised. James Baldwin wrote: "Corregidora is the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred, and is occurring, in the souls of Black men and woman...it dares to confront the absolute terror which lives at the heart of… Read More

new york: random house, 1975. first edition, 1975. a landmark work on intergenerational sexual trauma and the on-going legacy of chattel slavery. initially discovered by toni morrison, jones published corregidora when she was only twenty-six years old. the novel was widely celebrated by critics and leading intellectuals of the 1970s, including angela davis. in his review, james baldwin, called it"the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred and is occurring, in the souls of black men and women." edited by toni morrison. cover design by wendell minor. new york: random house. isbn: 0-394-49323-0. 8.5 x 5.5". 185 pages. hardcover. bound in quarter-cloth and paper-covered boards, spine stamped in metallic teal and red. book condition: fine. jacket condition: slightest trace of edgewear and slightest folding to corners of front flap. unclipped ($6.95). near fine.

Random House, 1975. 1st. Very Good. "A literary classic that remains vital to our understanding of the past, Corregidora is Gayl Jones's powerful debut novel, examining womanhood, sexuality, and the psychological residue of slavery. Jones masterfully tells the story of Ursa, a Kentucky blues singer, who, in the wake of a tragic loss, confronts her maternal history and the legacy of Corregidora, the Brazilian slave master who fathered both her mother and grandmother. Consumed and haunted by her hatred of the man who irrevocably shaped her life and the lives of her family, Ursa Corregidora must come to terms with a past that is never too distant from the present." -- Hard cover

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