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JUBILEE
by Walker, Margaret
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. First edition. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of this US epic, based on the true life story of the author's grandmother, a formerly enslaved woman who lived from the antebellum period through the Civil War and Reconstruction. JUBILEE is Margaret Walker's only novel; she completed it while studying for her PhD at the University of Iowa. 8.5'' x 5.75''. Original green cloth boards with metallic blue lettering. Original uncut ($5.95) color pictorial dust jacket, designed by William Hofmann. Green topstain. Blue cartographic endpapers. 498 pages. Jacket with scattered foxing and a bit of soil; light edgewear, with a few tiny chimps and tiny closed tears. Binding spine ends a touch bumped, a hint of shelfwear; a hint of sunning to edges. Textblock with mild soil. Interior clean and bright.
Synopsis
Here is the classic--and true--story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress, a Southern Civil War heroine to rival Scarlett O'Hara. Vyry bears witness to the South's prewar opulence and its brutality, to its wartime ruin and the subsequent promise of Reconstruction. It is a story that Margaret Walker heard as a child from her grandmother, the real Vyry's daughter. The author spent thirty years researching the novel so that the world might know the intelligent, strong, and brave black woman called Vyry. The phenomenal acclaim this best-selling book has achieved from readers black and white, young and old, attests to her success.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46702
- Title
- JUBILEE
- Author
- Walker, Margaret
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- 20th century,Post-WWII,1960s,US American,African American subject,African American author
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About the Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland
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