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written by a Black American woman to be chosen as a main selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, title to front cover, publisher’s device to rear cover, both in blind, top edge pink, others untrimmed. Very slight fading to extremities, contents clean; a near-fine copy in the very good dust jacket, price-clipped, a few small nicks to head of front panel and spine ends, spine gently sunned, otherwise bright and fresh. £1,250 [157116]
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106 MORRISON, Toni. The Song of Solomon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977 signed by the author First edition, signed by the author on the title page. Morrison’s third novel, which established her reputation, Song of Solomon won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 and was the first book
edge yellow, others untrimmed. With dust jacket. Spine ends slightly bumped, a touch wear to lower corners, couple of light marks to covers, occasional yellow pencil marks to text and annotations to margins, these sometime partially removed, contents generally clean; a very good copy in the near-fine dust jacket, not price-clipped, a few small nicks to edges, else sharp and bright. ¶ Hilton Als, “Toni Morrison’s Truth”, The New Yorker , 8 August 2019; Sara Blackburn, The New York Times , 30 December 1973. £2,250 [157118]
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