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Roots
by Haley, Alex
- Used
- hardcover
- Signed
- First
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First edition. Number 311 of a limited edition of 500 copies, signed by Alex Haley. In publisher's brown leatherette binding with gilt titles on spine, top edge gilt, in publisher's slipcase. Fine, with faint patch of soiling to base of spine. A lovely copy.
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
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- 180812008
- Title
- Roots
- Author
- Haley, Alex
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- New Like New
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio.co.uk member since: 2010
Portland, Oregon
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About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in American and British literature, and rare nonfiction. We are located in downtown Portland, Oregon and open by appointment.
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- fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...[more]
- gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...[more]
- spine
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects,...[more]
- top edge gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the...[more]
- First Edition
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