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The Bluest Eye
by MORRISON, Toni
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Third printing. Corners a bit bumped, sunning at the edges of the boards, and small stain on the foredge, else very good in very good dust jacket with old internally repaired tear, a faint stain along the top of the rear panel, with the price intact on the front flap of the jacket. A landmark book and one of the scarcest first books of the 1970s in any genre. This title has taken its place among other notable books that have been banned from public circulation by those too small-minded, myopic, or lazy to distinguish between excellence and prurience. A reasonable example of the Nobel Laureate's scarce first novel. Morrison was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The early editions must have had very small first printings. This is NOT the Book of the Month printing which also used third printing sheets, but did not have a price on the jacket.
Synopsis
The Bluest Eye is a 1970 novel by American author Toni Morrison. It is Morrison's first novel, written while Morrison was teaching at Howard University and was raising her two sons on her own. The story is about a year in the life of a young black girl in Lorain, Ohio named Pecola Breedlove. It takes place against the backdrop of America's Midwest as well as in the years following the Great Depression. Brutal in its depictions of racism, incest, and child molestation, The Bluest Eye has remained on the often-challenged and banned books list almost every year since its publication.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 530965
- Title
- The Bluest Eye
- Author
- MORRISON, Toni
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Holt Rinehart Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- NobelLaureate, African-Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-Americana;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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