Roots
by Haley, Alex
- Used
- fine
- Hardcover
- First
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
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About This Item
Garden City, N.y.: Doubleday & Co, 1976. First edition stated. Price clipped jacket has very minor edgewear. Tight, square attractive copy. In mylar. . First American Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- 004647
- Title
- Roots
- Author
- Haley, Alex
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, N.y.
- Date published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
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SANTA BARBARA, California
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About Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
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- price clipped
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- fine
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- jacket
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- Cloth
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- tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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