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ROOTS.
by Haley, Alex
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385037872
- ISBN 13
- 9780385037877
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385037872 . First trade edition. INSCRIBED & dated on January 31, 1977 by Alex Haley on a 4" X 5" piece of lined paper neatly laid-in. "Will Sanders - the very warm best to you and your family from the family of Kunta Kinte!" Fine in near fine dust jacket. (1"-inch neatly repaired tear at upper seam of spine on rear panel. Couple small edge nicks in jacket. ) Pulitzer Prize winner & basis for the television mini-series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 587 pages .
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
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3113516
- Title
- ROOTS.
- Author
- Haley, Alex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385037872
- ISBN 13
- 9780385037877
- Publisher
- Doubleday.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- 0385037872
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