ROOTS
Rare and modern books
Haley
Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
1976
ROOTS
Rare and modern books
Haley
Doubleday & Company, Inc.,
1976
110.00 €
(Newburyport,
United States of America)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1976
- Place of printing
- Garden City
- Author
- Haley
- Publishers
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Edition
- First Edition, early issue, $12.50 price on dustjacket, no
- Languages
- English
- First edition
- True
Description
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.
Edizione: 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 25,000,000 americans of african descent he helped to rediscover a rich cultural heritage that slavery had effectively buried.
