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Playing in the Dark
by MORRISON, Toni
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0674673778
- ISBN 13
- 9780674673779
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
MA: Harvard University, 1992. The first edition/first printing of this rather scarce 92 pp. book subtitled "Whiteness and the Literary Imagination". Part of the William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in the History of Civilization series. Tight, clean copy with bright dust jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Synopsis
Toni Morrison was born in Lorain, Ohio. She is Robert E. Goheen Professor, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University. She is the author of six novels: The Bluest Eye; Sula; Song of Solomon, which won the 1978 National Book Critics Award for fiction; Tar Baby; Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; and Jazz. Her most recent novel since winning the Nobel Prize 1993 is Paradise (1998).
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6000787
- Title
- Playing in the Dark
- Author
- MORRISON, Toni
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0674673778
- ISBN 13
- 9780674673779
- Publisher
- Harvard University
- Place of Publication
- MA
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Essays
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays; African-American;
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- Fine
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.