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Song of Solomon

Signed first UK edition of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

Toni MorrisonChloe Ardelia Wofford, 1931–2019

First UK edition. Crown 8vo. 337 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver to spine. Jacket design by Michael Harvey with a b/w photographic portrait of Morrison to rear panel by Helen Marcus.
Signed boldly by the author to title page at the 2008 Cheltenham Literature Festival, with promotional postcard laid in. Dustwrapper price-clipped by publisher with a new price sticker affixed to the front flap, light discolouration to the red titling of d/w spine, faint school stamp to top, bottom, and fore-edges of textblock, else a fresh, crisp copy.
Author's third novel. Winner of the 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award. Listed in "The New York Times 100 Notable Books of the 20th Century". Cited by the Swedish Academy in awarding Morrison the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature. The story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, Jr., heir to the richest black family in a mid-western town, who sets off on a re-discovery of his roots, 'travelling southwards geographically and inwards spiritually'. "A literary jewel." Fort Wayne Gazette
special feature
signed
edition
first UK
format
hardback
publisher
Chatto & Windus
published in
London
publication year
1978
ISBN
0701123753
pagination
337 pages
genre
literary fiction
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
remark
price‑clipped
condition  . . .
very good
of jacket
very good
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ref.7LK C39