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Tar Baby
by Morrison, Toni
- Used
- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1981. First Edition / Limited Edition. Full leather. Fine. Signed limited edition of Tar Baby by Toni Morrison, published by The Franklin Library in 1981.. Octavo, 312pp. Full brown morocco, double ruled with gilt design to covers. Three raised bands, title in gilt on spine. All edges gilt, silk endpapers. A fine example. Includes the notes from the publisher's laid-in at front. Also includes a laid-in pamphlet to the 2014-2015 Unterberg Poetry Center Voice of Literature seminar, featuring special guest Toni Morrison. Likely the event at which this copy was signed. Signed by the author on the title page.
Synopsis
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15283
- Title
- Tar Baby
- Author
- Morrison, Toni
- Illustrator
- Signed limited edition of Tar Baby by Toni Morrison, published by The Franklin Library in 1981.
- Format/Binding
- Full leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- Teer-Baby Toni Morrison, Roman Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye first edition, The Bluest Eye signed, Song of Solomon first edition, Song of Solomon signed, Sula Toni Morrison, Tar Baby Toni Morrison
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Edges
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- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- First Edition
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- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
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