Roots
Doubleday, September 1976. Hardcover. Used - Good / Good. Item #288376
ISBN: 0385037872
It begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author. The author is Alex Haley. This magnificent book is his.
{6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} Mildly edgeworn and marginally darkened dustjacket with crisp vertical crease down middle of front panel and much less distinct crease on jacket spine.. Front flap is clipped. Heavily dust stain black cloth covered spine with worn & faded lettering within worn brick red rectangle. Grey paper covered boards with browning at edges. Foxing to end pages. Dust stained & foxed textblock edges. Non-authorial gift inscription inked on ffep. Sound binding, Good reading copy. Unfortunate cigarette odor. [587 pages]
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Price: $10.00
