Song of Solomon - FIRST PRINTING THUS

Morrison, Toni

ISBN 10: 1857152166 / ISBN 13: 9781857152166

Verlag: Everyman, 1995

Beschreibung

FIRST EDITION THUS, with the exclusive introduction by Reynolds Price. The Nobel Prize for Literature winner's brilliant novel of black America singing its past has been a celebrated and much loved book. This copy is a now scarce first printing of the Everyman edition. Apart from a former owner's neat initial to the front end paper this is near fine, inside a protected and complete jacket. very handsome first edition thus of this great novel; in 1991 the newly designed and beautifully produced David Campbell Everyman series was launched to great praise. With elegant typography, scarlet cloth binding, silk marker tie, fine acid free paper, this series was greeted with great praise from Clive James, Tom Stoppard, A. S. Byatt, and many other academics and writers. Each volume has a relevant chronology, a bibliography, and a specially written introduction. (This one is written by Reynolds Price.) All this care means these serious and elegant editions, especially in their first printings, are now collected in their own right. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Buchnummer des Verkäufers ABE-3785870449

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Titel: Song of Solomon - FIRST PRINTING THUS

Verlag: Everyman

Erscheinungsdatum: 1995

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition....

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The story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality. Through the enlightenment of one man the novel recapitulates the history of slavery and liberation.