I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Upperco, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Random House, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, hardcover. Vg+ condition in vg+ dj. Previous owner's name/date on front endpaper. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. Dust jacket not price-clipped (5.95). now in a removable mylar protector. Earliest ptg. points present: textblock top edge stained red, number line ending in 2. First printing (stated).
Synopsis
Titled after a stanza from Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy,” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the first of a series of seven autobiographical novels by African-American poet and writer Maya Angelou. Personally deeply involved and affected by the civil rights movement, the volume explores racism and identity in her early life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was nominated for the National Book Award in 1970. However, due to its depiction of controversial subjects such as sexuality, lesbianism and rape, the use of the novel in classrooms has been frequently challenged.
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- Bookseller
- Tiber Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1240510.16
- Title
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Author
- Maya Angelou
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House
- Date Published
- 1969
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American, Fiction, Literature, Modern,
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