May 16th Rare Autograph Auction
"EARLY IN THE SPRING OF 1750, IN THE VILLAGE OF JUFFURE, A MANCHILD WAS BORN...
FIRST EDITION OF ROOTS.INSCRIBED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY ALEX HALEY HALEY. Alex. Roots. Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. Thick octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket.
First trade edition of Haley's acclaimed historical novel. inscribed in the year of publication by Aim. "October 12. 1976, Mike, it's a pleasure to know you! Alex Haley".
"Haley's most celebrated novel. Roots, has been compared to both Moby Dick and War and Peace. The Washington Post called it the most highly acclaimed book of our time...
The author immediately became a household name, as he won over 270 awards. A phenomenon of the decade. Roots mesmerized Americans and readers of literature throughout the world. No novel since the publications of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gone With the Wind captured the public interest on the subject of slavery and its ramifications... In Roots Haley successfully traced his ancestors with a birth in 1750 in Gambia, through oral history with painstaking research and thereby put into perspective the historical background of millions of other African Americans... Haley's 12 years of work on Roots won him a Pulitzer prize
With One Of A Kind Collectibles LOA.
FIRST EDITION OF ROOTS.INSCRIBED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY ALEX HALEY
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