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New York: Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 587 pages; VG-/VG-; spine is white with brown lettering; dust jacket is in a mylar covering, has price uncut '$12.50', has minor wear and creasing along the top and bottom edges, spine has heavy discoloration and minor chipping; binding has minor wear along the top and bottom edges, has minor bumping on the fore edge corners; pages have moderate blotching along the top edge; LH consignment; shelved case 6. 1320874. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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
- Second Story Books
(US)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- 1320874
- Title
- ROOTS
- Author
- Haley, Alex
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date published
- 1976
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Second Story Books operates two open shops in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. We have a large internet presence including this website, Amazon, and Ebay, accredited appraisals member ASA, and an in house book binder. For more information go to www.secondstorybooks.com
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- octavo
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- edges
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