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ROOTS
by Haley Alex
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition, early issue, $12.50 price on dustjacket, no statement. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original cloth backed boards lettered and decorated in gilt. viii, 587 pp. A very fine and clean copy with only the very lightest mellowing to the jacket and some very light edgewear to the foot of the jacket. AN AMERICAN CLASSIC. The saga of an American family and one of the great bestsellers of the 1970’s. In this work, Haley became the first African-American citizen to trace his lineage back to Africa and so for over 25,000,000 Americans of African descent he helped to rediscover a rich cultural heritage that slavery had effectively buried.
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
- Buddenbrooks, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29852
- Title
- ROOTS
- Author
- Haley Alex
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1976
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About the Seller
Buddenbrooks, Inc.
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Newburyport, Massachusetts
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