Roots
by Haley, Alex
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- fine; clean, tight, & attractive./very good; light rubbing to dj edges; dj protected by new Mylar wrap.
- Seller
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Golconda, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. fine; clean, tight, & attractive./very good; light rubbing to dj edges; dj protected by new Mylar wrap.. 8 vo; muted yellow boards with black spine strip; gilt spine lettering; 688 pp. dj has full page b/w photo of author & 12.95 price intact on dj flap.
Synopsis
Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rosebud Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1.19615
- Title
- Roots
- Author
- Haley, Alex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fine; clean, tight, & attractive.
- Jacket Condition
- very good; light rubbing to dj edges; dj protected by new Mylar wrap.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1976
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About the Seller
Rosebud Books
Biblio member since 2007
Golconda, Illinois
About Rosebud Books
Rosebud Books is located in the heart of the Shawnee National Forest in the "Land Between the Rivers". We are an internet shop, open by appointment to the public. Our inventory contains a litte bit of everything from vintage technical to modern first eds. We have a nice collection of vintage and collectible children's literature and all types of poetry, art, & drama.
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