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ROOTS
by Alex Haley
- Used
- hardcover
- First
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0385037872
- ISBN 13
- 9780385037877
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385037872 . Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. ; 9.2 X 5.9 X 1.8 inches; 688 pages; Original dust jacket protected by archival Brodart cover. All domestic orders shipped protected in a Box. .
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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- Bookseller
- Rare Book Cellar
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 138465
- Title
- ROOTS
- Author
- Alex Haley
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385037872
- ISBN 13
- 9780385037877
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date published
- 1976
- Keywords
- 0385037872
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- jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...[more]
- good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...[more]
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