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Roots
by Haley, Alex
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385037872
- ISBN 13
- 9780385037877
- Seller
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. First Edition / Limited Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. Signed limited edition of Roots by Alex Haley.. Octavo, viii, 587pp. Brown leather, title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Top edge gilt. This copy appears largely unread. Housed in publisher's slipcase. From a limited edition of 500 copies, signed by Alex Haley, this is number 371. Roots received a Pulitzer Prize special award in 1977.
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
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11649
- Title
- Roots
- Author
- Haley, Alex
- Illustrator
- Signed limited edition of Roots by Alex Haley.
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385037872
- ISBN 13
- 9780385037877
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- signed book Alex Haley, Roots Haley, signed Roots Haley, limited edition Alex Haley, Roots Saga of an American Family Haley, Saga of an American Family Alex Haley
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