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2709612623.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
197629852Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1976. First Edition early issue $12.50 price on dustjacket no statement. Thick 8vo publisher’s original cloth backed boards lettered and decorated in gilt. viii 587 pp. A very fine and clean copy with only the very lightest mellowing to the jacket and some very light edgewear to the foot of the jacket. AN AMERICAN CLASSIC. The saga of an American family and one of the great bestsellers of the 1970’s. In this work Haley became the first African-American citizen to trace his lineage back to Africa and so for over 25000000 Americans of African descent he helped to rediscover a rich cultural heritage that slavery had effectively buried. Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover
19761282381976. First Edition. Signed. HALEY Alex. Roots. Garden City: Doubleday 1976. Thick octavo original half black cloth original dust jacket. $950.First trade edition of Haley's acclaimed historical novel inscribed by him in the year of publication ""10/20/76 B and M my very best and my love! Alex Haley.""""Haley's most celebrated novel Roots has been compared to both Moby Dick and War and Peace. The Washington Post called it the most highly acclaimed book of our time The author immediately became a household name as he won over 270 awards. A phenomenon of the decade Roots mesmerized Americans and readers of literature throughout the world. No novel since the publications of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gone With the Wind captured the public interest on the subject of slavery and its ramifications In Roots Haley successfully traced his ancestors with a birth in 1750 in Gambia through oral history with painstaking research and thereby put into perspective the historical background of millions of other African Americans Haley's 12 years of work on Roots won him a special Pulitzer prize on April 18 1977"" Blockson 3939. Preceded by the same year's signed limited edition. ""First Edition"" stated on copyright page. In 1977 the revolutionary television miniseries adaptation of Roots became one of the most-watched American television programs of its time. Books of the Century 500. Book fine dust jacket with mild edge-wear tape repairs to verso. A very nice copy. hardcover
