Roots
by Haley, Alex
- Used
- hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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Woodland Hills, California
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Co, 1976. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED and warmly inscribed by author Haley on the free front endpaper to former Walt Disney Company president Card Walker and his wife Winnie; near fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket; gentle wear to jacket edges, some rubbing to jacket back, small ink mark across top of jacket spine, minor dent to bottom of front board else a tight square unmarked copy in clipped dust jacket; an early printing in the smaller first printing format; inscription reads: "For Card and Winnie Walker, Warmest wishes to you...from me and the whole ROOTS family of Kunta Kinte - Most sincerely, Alex Haley (Aug. 2, 1981)
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
- David Kaye Books & Memorabilia
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 38057
- Title
- Roots
- Author
- Haley, Alex
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date published
- 1976
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