ROOTS
by HALEY, Alex
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/price-clipped dj
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/price-clipped dj. Octavo; viii, 587 pages, clothbacked boards; corners bumped; dj chipped head of spine ( at the top joint), rear panel bumped, torn
A modern classic, originally better-known for its televised versions - the first tv miniseries - than this original. Stated "First Edition". "The memoires and the mouths of ancient elders was the only way that early histories of mankind got passed along ... for all of us today to know who we are." NOTE: the correct First Edition of this has 587 pages, as this copy has, not more.
A modern classic, originally better-known for its televised versions - the first tv miniseries - than this original. Stated "First Edition". "The memoires and the mouths of ancient elders was the only way that early histories of mankind got passed along ... for all of us today to know who we are." NOTE: the correct First Edition of this has 587 pages, as this copy has, not more.
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.
Reviews
On Oct 12 2010, Fluffygcataolcom said:
Great book
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2020281
- Title
- ROOTS
- Author
- HALEY, Alex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- price-clipped dj
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1976
Terms of Sale
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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