Roots (Signed Limited Edition) by Alex Haley - 1976

Garden City: Doubleday. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This is the limited signed edition with leather binding and slipcase. This copy being #215 of 500. A fine to very fine book in a fine slipcase, very tight binding, unread. Internally spotless. A beautiful collectors copy. ROOTS is a saga of dislocation and strength in the face of brutality, reckoning with the complexities of ancestry in the African diaspora caused by the transatlantic slave trade. It begins in 1750 on the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, tracing the lives of multiple generations up to the birth of Haley himself. Michael Eric Dyson explains what ROOTS represented to the descendants of slaves in the United States: "No longer were we genealogical nomads [. ] Haley wrote black folk into the book of American heritage and gave us the confidence to believe that we could find our forebears even as he shared his own" ("Haley's Comet"). The 1977 television adaptation was a major cultural event, with an audience of nearly half the American population (NEW YORK TIMES). Washington Post said it is, "the most highly acclaimed book of our time". Provenance: From the remarkable collection of Theodore B Baum ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 587 pages .