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ROOTS The Saga of an American Family
by Haley, Alex
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- hardcover
- First
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0385037872
- ISBN 13
- 9780385037877
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New York: Doubleday. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385037872 . Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket,. First Edition stated. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Original unclipped 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 #
- 30680
- Title
- ROOTS The Saga of an American Family
- Author
- Haley, Alex
- 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, HALEY, ALEX, 1921, 1992, AFRO, AMERICANS, BIOGRAPHY, AMERICAN, FAMILIES
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