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Morrison, Toni. Sula.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Nominated for the National Book Award, Sula exemplifies the mysteries of death, friendship, and poverty, and its rare economy in writing is met with critical acclaim and popular success, establishing Morrison as one of the 20th century's most significant novelists. Sara Blackburn wrote that Morrison's extravagantly beautiful, doomed characters are locked in a world where hope for the future is a foreign commodity, yet they are enormously, achingly alive." And Morrison's writing is "[e]xtravagantly beautiful. . . . Enormously, achingly alive. . . . A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter" (The New York Times).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Sula.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973.
Price: US$2600.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Dan Sieber Toni Morrison." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. An exceptional example. Nominated for the National Book Award, Sula exemplifies the mysteries of death, friendship, and poverty, and its rare economy in writing is met with critical acclaim and popular success, establishing Morrison as one of the 20th century's most significant novelists. Sara Blackburn wrote that Morrison's extravagantly beautiful, doomed characters are locked in a world where hope for the future is a foreign commodity, yet they are enormously, achingly alive." And Morrison's writing is "[e]xtravagantly beautiful. . . . Enormously, achingly alive. . . . A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter" (The New York Times).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Sula. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973.
Price: US$2800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Toni Morrison on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's orange cloth stamped in gilt. Binder's error leaving front free endpapers uncut from front paste downs, otherwise a Near Fine copy with light lean to the binding and creasing to several page corners. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with a bit of wear at the edges and indentations to the surface of the rear panel. A lovely copy of the author's second novel, signed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.