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Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$2.54 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.
Seller: Once Upon A Time Books, Siloam Springs, AR, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$5.66 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: May contain writing, notes, highlighting, bends or folds. Text is readable, book is clean, and pages and cover mostly intact. May show normal wear and tear. Item may be missing CD. May include library marks.
Seller: ZBK Books, Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$6.48 + shipping
Description: Pages are clean! The cover has visible markings and wear. The dust jacket shows normal wear and tear. The front text block edge is deckled Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
Seller: Solr Books, Skokie, IL, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$6.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$7.48 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni.. Tar Baby.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York., 1981.
Price: US$7.63 + shipping
Description: Hardcover, 305 S., sehr gut erhalten.
Seller: Buchgrafik, Freiburg, Germany
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$7.89 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library.
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$7.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: HPB-Emerald, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$8.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.
Seller: Cheryl's Books, Vinemont, AL, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$9.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
Seller: Textbooks_Source, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$9.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Seller: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$9.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$10.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light toning. Owner's name on jacket, else unmarked.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$11.67 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$11.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Stated first. Dust jacket shows minor wear and tear, pages are clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby: a Novel. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. The fourth novel by the Nobel Prize winning author. Spine of dustjacket slightly sunned else a clean unmarked copy.
Seller: Great Northern Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Trade Edition. Fine copy, jacket slightly edge-worn.
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$13.96 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Wear, tear and staining to dust jacket. Mild foxing to side edge. CLEAN TEXT. FIRST EDITION.
Seller: Solr Books, Skokie, IL, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. First trade edition, stated. Ex library copy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardbound in dust jacket. 1st edition. Minor wear to corners & edges of dust jacket. Mild fading to spine. Offsetting to end pages, otherwise very good.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Solr Books, Skokie, IL, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$18.13 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!
Seller: Lakeside Books, Benton Harbor, MI, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$18.95 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$19.71 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: LibraryMercantile, Humble, TX, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light wear. Gift inscription on free end paper, and small note on rear free end paper. Dust jacket spine is lightly faded. H12
Seller: Voyageur Book Shop, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
MORRISON, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later printing. Spine soiled, very good in a very good dustwrapper with spine sunned, short tears on spine ends and corners.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine slightly cocked. D-j slightly chipped.
Seller: Encanto Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First trade edition. Clean & straight with a very slightly sunned spine. Dust jacket in a mylar cover. 305 pp.
Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$20.52 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. Fast Shipping and good customer service
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$21.71 + shipping
Condition: New
Description:
Seller: LibraryMercantile, Humble, TX, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition stated. The binding is tight but slightly canted. Corners sharp. Purple stained top edge and deckle fore edge. Dust jacket in mylar has a small area of soiling to front cover and a touch of edge wear at head of spine.
Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$22.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby by Morrison, Toni [Hardcover ]. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$22.30 + shipping
Condition: New
Description:
Seller: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated First Trade Edition. No markings. Small tears to edges of the dust jacket, in a protective cover, $11.95 on the front flap.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. Tar Baby (First Edition). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of the first trade edition. Price ($11.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has fading on spine, light creasing, light soiling, and a couple tiny closed tears (as pictured). Soiling on boards (as pictured). Rear-Copies.
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. First edition, third printing. A tiny bit of sunning on spine of DJ, small tear on back of DJ, light scratches, mild edgewear. Pages clean and binding sound.
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby.. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st ed. NY (Knopf) 1981. Bookplate else about fine in dust wrapper.
Seller: ATGBooks, St Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description:
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$28.80 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Owner's blindstamp on half-title page only flaw but it is unobtrusive and attractive. Tight, square clean copy. First edition stated on copyright page. First printing. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1981, 1981.
Price: US$29.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: beat book shop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Book is in NEW condition.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
MORRISON, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First trade edition. Slightly cocked spine with faint spotting else near fine in a very good dust jacket with a faded spine, short tears on the front panel, and some toning.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 306 Pp. White Cloth, Gilt. Stated First Trade Edition. Fine In Fine Dj, Not Price Clipped, No Remainder Mark, Slight Darkening Of Spine To A Bluish Green.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1981.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Special order direct from the distributor
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$31.00 + shipping
Description: signs of little wear on the cover.
Seller: Ebooksweb, Bensalem, PA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$31.32 + shipping
Description: Remainder mark
Seller: Ebooksweb, Bensalem, PA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$31.64 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: .
Seller: Ebooksweb, Bensalem, PA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Clean pages. Book club.
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. Tar Baby: A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf, U.S.A., 1981.
Price: US$33.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover is in very good condition (soiled on the text block, gift inscription written in ink on the FFEP and dated "May 10, 1981", "50" (cents) written in green colored pencil on the top corner of the FFEP, soiled on the FFEP, foxing on the inside of the back cover and soiled around the edges of the front and back covers and spine). Dust jacket is in very good condition (multiple tears at the creases, spine and edges, price-clipped, stained/ soiled, discolored and edge wear). Brodart protected. 305 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A story of a love affair between two African-Americans of different worlds. A hypnotic tale set in the Caribbean examining the obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants and men and women.
Seller: Lotsa Books, Fort Smith, AR, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 18.00, 1981.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first trade edition. A fine copy with no defects. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1981.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1981 Knopf FIRST edition of Morrison's 4th novel. This book is in FINE/Very good condition The HB is very clean inside and out with no wear. The unclipped DJ is in VG+ condition with minor missing chip in the lower front. Very Collectible!
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1981.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: first trade edition
Seller: Hill Country Books, Ctr Sandwich, NH, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. Tar Baby. Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1981.
Price: US$37.67 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: reprint edition. 320 pages. 8.50x5.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
MORRISON, TONI. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$37.70 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Gilt lettered cream cloth in pictorial price clipped dust jacket. Royal blue top stain. Slight edgewear o/w near fine copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Toni Morrison. Tar Baby. Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1981.
Price: US$38.84 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: reprint edition. 320 pages. 8.50x5.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Toni Morrison. TAR BABY. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$43.71 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Small tear to rear of jacket and at crown of spine. ; 1.2 x 8.3 x 5.9 Inches; 320 pages.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. TAR BABY. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$43.71 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. A few scrapes to jacket at front panel. ; 1.2 x 8.3 x 5.9 Inches; 320 pages.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. TAR BABY. Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1981.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 305pp. Antique white cloth boards with gilt title on spine and front board. Green pictorial Dust Jacket. Novel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. TAR BABY. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$48.88 + shipping
Description: Fine in a Fine dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. TAR BABY. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Edge wear and soiling. Closed tears to rear panel's upper and lower edges. ; 8.30 X 5.90 X 1.20 inches; 320 pages.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A., 1981.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This book has very little corner bumping or edge wear. There is some spill marks on the upper edges of the text block. No discoloration, possibly water. Text is clean and tight in it's binding. Forward cocking of the book. No ownership or other markings. DJ is unclipped with slight edge wear. We have placed it in a protective cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
MORRISON, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 305 pages. The fourth book from the Nobel Prize winning author of "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon." A clean and tight very near fine copy in cloth boards and in a close to near fine dust jacket with a small tear to the top of the front panel, a slight crimp to the base of the front panel and some other very minor wear. Still, a pleasing copy of this powerful novel.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. TAR BABY. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 306 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good minus dust jacket. Green spine with yellow and brown text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has mild edgewear and sheflwear, creasing to head edge of rear cover. Boards have slight cocking to spine. Shelved under Front counter. 1371729. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$51.65 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$53.36 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Buy for Great customer experience
Seller: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. TAR BABY. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$59.89 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.15
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.00 + shipping
Description: HBDJ, 1981, stated 1st edition,minor rub, wear & tiny chips & small mended Tears DJ, White creme cloth cover with gold gilt, Cover slight lean, Top edge stained blue by Publ,Interior Nice, Tight Clean , F-/NF+, 306 pgs
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$66.00 + shipping
Description: HBDJ, 1981, stated 1st edition,minor rub, wear & tiny chips & small mended Tears DJ, White creme cloth cover with gold gilt, Cover light small Stain, Top edge stained blue by Publ,Interior Nice, Tight Clean, F-/NF+, 306 pgs, back DJ cover couple tiny red Dots ,
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$66.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 306pp. Toni Morrison's 4th novel, a powerful tempest of longing and alarm, set in the Caribbean where the slow ritual among of the rich and their servants is suddenly upset with the arrival of the unexpected vistor. Bound in white cloth boards, with illustrated dust jacket (one thin closed tear).
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
MORRISON, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred a Knopf Inc, NY, 1981.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is a very tight, clean and fresh book. An important and increasingly uncommon work in collector's condition.The Dust jacket is bright and clean with very little wear. The price is intact. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones--of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the people whose drama unfolds. It is a novel suffused with a tense and passionate inquiry, revealing a whole spectrum of emotions underlying the relationships between black men and women, white men and women, and black and white people. The place is a Caribbean island. In their mansion overlooking the sea, the cultivated millionaire Valerian Street, now retired, and his pretty, younger wife, Margaret, go through rituals of living, as if in a trance. It is the black servant couple, who have been with the Streets for years--the fastidious butler, Sydney, and his strong yet remote wife--who have arranged every detail of existence to create a surface calm broken only by sudden bursts of verbal sparring between Valerian and his wife. And there is a visitor among them--a beautiful young black woman, Jadine, who is not only the servant's dazzling niece, but the protégée and friend of the Streets themselves; Jadine, who has been educated at the Sorbonne at Valerian's expense and is home now for a respite from her Paris world of fashion, film and art. Through a season of untroubled ease, the lives of these five move with a ritualized grace until, one night, a ragged, starving black American street man breaks into the house. And, in a single moment, with Valerian's perverse decision not to call for help but instead to invite the man to sit with them and eat, everything changes. Valerian moves toward a larger abdication. Margaret's delicate and enduring deception is shattered. The butler and his wife are forced into acknowledging their illusions. And Jadine, who at first is repelled by the intruder, finds herself moving inexorably toward him--he calls himself Son; he is a kind of black man she has dreaded since childhood; uneducated, violent, contemptuous of her privilege.
Seller: Long Island Book Company, Alpharetta, GA, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1981.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. First trade edition. Tan cloth. There is a small remainder mark on the bottom edge; the marker left small dots on the bottom edges of the spine and the DJ; also left a small mark on bottom edge of front board. In a price-clipped DJ, now wrapped in a mylar. The DJ has a small closed tear.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
MORRISON, TONI. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Trade Edition. Nobel laureate s fourth novel, a hypnotic tale set in the Caribbean. Fine in very near fine dustjacket, with only a hint of the typical spine color shift.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in fine clipped dust jacket
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 306 pages. First edition, fist printing. Dust jacket design by R. D. Scudellari. Her 4th book. A story of a love affair between two African-Americans of different worlds. A hypnotic tale set in the Caribbean examining the obligation and betrayal between blacks & whites, masters & servants and men & women. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with none of the usual fading to the spine. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Morisson, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket First printing, First trade edition (stated)
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: DJ in archival cover tiny closed tears. Unclipped price of $11.95 on the front flap. Blue topstain. Stated first trade edition.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
TONI MORRISON. TAR BABY By TONI MORRISON 1981 First Edition. ALFRED A. KNOPF, NY, 1981.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: TITLE: TAR BABY By TONI MORRISON 1981 First Edition AUTHOR: TONI MORRISON PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: ALFRED A. KNOPF, NY 1981 EDITION: First Trade Edition stated ISBN: 0394423291 CATEGORY: Ethnic, First Edition BINDING/COVER: Hardback with dust jacket COLOR: Cream Color SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 306 pages. CONDITION: The dust jacket is in good plus condition; there is a minor wrinkle at the back along the top edge; the original $11.95 price is still on the front flap. Page 143 has minor wrinkling or waving/creasing along the bottom and side edge. Book is without marks or writings, pages are clean and book is tight and sturdy. All the pages are present in book. Good+/Good+ dust jacket condition. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: The place is the Caribbean island. In their mansion overlooking the sea, the cultivated millionaire Valerian Street, now retired, and his pretty, younger wife, Margaret, go through the rituals of living, as if in a trance. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, book(s) will ship immediately to customer (it's on the way), you are welcome to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCodePrc E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: RSTC 007623
Seller: ViewFair Books, Live Oak, FL, U.S.A.
Morisson, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket First printing
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second printing. 1 vols. 8vo.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York, 1981.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED BY TONI MORRISON. The Noble Prize winning author's 4th novel set on a Caribbean island. The beautiful dustjacket design (inspired by Matisse) has sun fading to the spine panel and a very faint small not noticeable scratch to the front panel of the dustjacket. Fine/near fine.
Seller: Ira Joel Haber - Cinemage Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. Tar Baby [Signed]. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Trade Edition, stated. Signed by Toni Morrison without inscription at front free endpaper. Octavo. 306 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $11.95 price intact. Cream boards stamped in gilt; purple topstain. Dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with some minor surface scratching. Boards show a touch of shelfwear and general foxing. Prior owner's signature on front pastedown, obscured by jacket flap. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good or better copy.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, 306pp. Beige cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Blue topstain. Stated "First Trade Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, touch of wear to corners. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $11.95 retail price on front flap, some shelf wear, faint sunning to spine. Signed by the author in black pen on the title page.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated First Edition. Uncorrected Proof. See images. Wraps with general wear, discoloration, stains, minor creasing. Paper label affixed with tape with edge tear to left side. Publication date with "30" inserted in red ink. Wraps with edge wear. Copy of an article entitled, Her First Novel Since Song of Solomon" is internally stapled to front wrap with underside of staple seen to front of wrap. Article has bottom edge wear. Spine lightened and discolored with reading wear. Bumping to rear hinge with resulting wrinkle wear/creasing to spine. Edgewear to spine tips. Half inch tear along front hinge from top joint. Corners rubbed with dog eared bottom corners. Six or so pages with green underlining and notations to margins (ask to see additional images if interested). Pg. 87 duplicated. Text block edges with light soil and wear. Shelf 3c.
Seller: Friends of Poughkeepsie Library, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
MORRISON, TONI. TAR BABY (SIGNED). ALFRED A KNOPF CO PUB 1981, NEW YORK NY, 1981.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: AUTHOR'S 4TH NOVEL SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL TAN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WTIH GILT SPINE AND UPPER COVER TITLES, AND TOP EDGE STAINED BLUE. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS ABOUT WITH SLIGHT COLOR FADE TO THE SPINE PANEL, FINE AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: Knopf, 1993, Very good, 1st Edition. 8vo., cream cloth lettered in gilt; pictorial dust jacket with minor edgewear, Signed by Morrison on title page.
Seller: Shopbookaholic Inc, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. Tar Baby. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, cream cloth lettered in gilt; unclipped dust jacket, with the slightest edgewear. First printing of the stated first trade edition, preceded by the Franklin Library limited edition. A gorgeous copy signed by Morrison on the front endpaper.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. Tar Baby. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, cream cloth lettered in gilt; unclipped dust jacket, with the slightest edgewear. First printing of the stated first trade edition, preceded by the Franklin Library limited edition. A superb copy signed by Morrison on the front endpaper.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. TAR BABY (SIGNED FIRST EDITION). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Autographed SEEMINGLY UNREAD Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in Brodart dust cover. A 1st edition/1st printing in Very Fine condition in Very Fine dust-jacket. Beautifully signed by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison on the bound-in title page. The story of a love affair between two Black Americans from very different worlds. Jadine is a black fashion model with a white patron. Son is a black fugitive who represents all she loathes and desires. Their story plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan to the deep South, examining the obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women. Simply pristine, an extremely clean and crisp copy from my personal smoke-free collection. Not a remainder or EX-LIB. A GIFT QUALITY COPY. You'll not likely find a finer copy! Delivered to you in a box, never in an envelope.
Seller: Chateau Chamberay Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf / A Borzoi Book, New York, 1981.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing of the stated first trade edition, preceded by the Franklin Library edition. Signed by Toni Morrison directly on the front endpage. Very slight crease to top corner of the first three leaves, else book in fine condition; in a fine dust jacket. A superb copy.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Toni Morrison. [1st ed] Tar Baby (Inscribed). Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of the stated first trade edition of Nobel-prize winner Toni Morrison s fourth novel. Published in 1981 by Alfred A. Knopf. 8vo, hardcover with unclipped pictorial dust jacket, cream cloth lettered in gilt. Boldly inscribed on the FFE to Sybil Harriet Landau, New York City lawyer and educator involved in civil rights, feminist, and lesbian causes and lecturer on rape, sexuality and the law. Light chipping and rubbing to the dust jacket but an overall lovely copy enhanced by the inscription. From the collection of Sybil Landau.
Seller: Weinberg Modern Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition. Signed by Toni Morrison on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's blue wraps printed in black. Near Fine with toning to spine and light general wear. A lovely copy, scarce in this format and signed.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Tar Baby. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Format is approximately 5.875 inches and 8.5 inches. [10], 305, [5] pages. Inscribed on the fep by the author. Inscription reads To Agatha Best wishes Toni Morrison. Agatha's name and date crossed out above on the fep. DJ has wear, soiling and tears. Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved; she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. She earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. Morrison became the first black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City in the late 1960s. She developed her own reputation as an author in the 1970s and '80s. Her work Beloved was made into a film in 1998. Morrison's works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States and the Black American experience. The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities, in 1996. She was honored in 1996 with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. President Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones--of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the people whose drama unfolds. It is a novel suffused with a tense and passionate inquiry, revealing a whole spectrum of emotions underlying the relationships between black men and women, white men and women, and black and white people. The place is a Caribbean island. In their mansion overlooking the sea, the cultivated millionaire Valerian Street, now retired, and his pretty, younger wife, Margaret, go through rituals of living, as if in a trance. It is the black servant couple, who have been with the Streets for years--the fastidious butler, Sydney, and his strong yet remote wife--who have arranged every detail of existence to create a surface calm broken only by sudden bursts of verbal sparring between Valerian and his wife. And there is a visitor among them--a beautiful young black woman, Jadine, who is not only the servant's dazzling niece, but the protegée and friend of the Streets themselves; Jadine, who has been educated at the Sorbonne at Valerian's expense and is home now for a respite from her Paris world of fashion, film and art. Through a season of untroubled ease, the lives of these five move with a ritualized grace until, one night, a ragged, starving black American street man breaks into the house. And, in a single moment, with Valerian's perverse decision not to call for help but instead to invite the man to sit with them and eat, everything changes. Valerian moves toward a larger abdication. Margaret's delicate and enduring deception is shattered. The butler and his wife are forced into acknowledging their illusions. And Jadine, who at first is repelled by the intruder, finds herself moving inexorably toward him--he calls himself Son; he is a kind of black man she has dreaded since childhood; uneducated, violent, contemptuous of her privilege. As Jadine and Son come together in the loving collision they have both welcomed and feared, the novel moves outward--to the Florida backwater town Son was raised in, fled from, yet cherishes; to her sleek New York; then back to the island people and their protective and entangling legends. As the lovers strive to hold and understand each other, as they experience the awful weight of the separate worlds that have formed them--she perceiving his vision of reality and of love as inimical to her freedom, he perceiving her as the classic lure, the tar baby set out to entrap him--all the mysterious elements, all the highly charged threads of the story converge. Everything that is at risk is made clear: how the conflicts and dramas wrought by social and cultural circumstances must ultimately be played out in the realm of the heart. Once again, Toni Morrison has given us a novel of daring, fascination, and power. First Trade Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.