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Morrison, Toni. Beloved ----SIGNED----. Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1987.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED, beautifully, by Toni Morrison on the title page. A fifth printing. There is an owner bookplate to pastedown. Owner has also written her name (7 characters) on the bottom page edge with a sharpie. A flawed copy, but a great chance to own a signed copy of this classic at an affordable price. Otherwise this is a nice, slightly used copy.
Seller: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition Clamshell Collector's Case. No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case for the great Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison's BELOVED. Superb Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. The case is finished black Nuba® with red sides and a 'sculpted design of a woman in a heart. Each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine. We can add special text if necessary such as "Signed" Every TBCL case can be finished in a selection of fine leathers & cloths or Nuba® or a combination of both. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for OVER 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available upon request. Book definitely NOT included.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Faint toning to the spine and top edge of front panel of dustjacket - see image. ; Signed by the author on the title page. Both book and dustjacket are in pristine condition - exception noted. First edition. Dustjacket is protected in a Mylar sleeve. Previous purchase Invoice for $800.00 from reputable dealer is laid in. Author won Pulitzer prize and Nobel Award in Literature. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 275 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Bookshelf of Maine, Franklin, ME, U.S.A.
MORRISON, Toni. Beloved (Signed First Edition). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 275 pages. The Pulitzer Prize winning fifth novel from the 1993 Nobel laureate. A tight close to near fine copy in cloth covered boards with some slight toning to the pages and with some also slight foxing to the page edges and in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Morrison on the front free endpaper. Despite the flaws a pleasing copy of one of the best novels of the 20th century.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Early printing of the author's fourth novel and considered by many her finest. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Gail Shaw Toni Morrison." Fine in a fine dust jacket without wear. Jacket design by R.D. Scudellari. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel concerns a runaway slave and her daughter, whose lives are disrupted by a former slave, a spirit and a woman named Beloved. "A masterwork. . . . I cant imagine American literature without it" (John Leonard, Los Angeles Times). It was the basis for the movie Beloved, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandie Newton.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved (Signed Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novel). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Fine in a fine dust jacket: Handsomely bound in finely-woven linen cloth stamped brightly in gold on the front boards and on the spine. Splendidly clean and tight throughout; virtually unread. Signed "Toni Morrison" on the half-title page. In a fine dust jacket with the price of $18.95 at the top of the front flap. With the date code "9/87"at the bottom of the rear flap. And a wonderful black & white photo of a gloriously smiling Morrison on the rear panel. A collector's copy of this Pulitzer-prize winner, signed. Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of a dysfunctional family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. The narrative of Beloved derives from the life of Margaret Garner, an enslaved person in the slave state of Kentucky who escaped and fled to the free state of Ohio in 1856.Garner was subject to capture under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and when U.S. marshals broke into the cabin where she and her children had barricaded themselves, she was attempting to kill her childrenand had already killed her youngest daughterin hopes of sparing them from being returned to slavery. Morrison's main inspiration for the novel was an account of the event titled "A Visit to the Slave Mother who Killed Her Child" in an 1856 newspaper article initially published in the American Baptist and reproduced in The Black Book, an anthology of texts of Black history and culture that Morrison had edited in 1974.[1]The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction a year after its publication, and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award.[2][3] A survey of writers and literary critics compiled by The New York Times ranked it as the best work of American fiction from 1981 to 2006.[4] It was adapted as a 1998 movie of the same name, starring Oprah Winfrey. The book's dedication reads "Sixty Million and more", referring to the Africans and their descendants who died as a result of the Atlantic slave trade.[5] The book's epigraph is Romans 9:25. (Wikipedia) Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1095.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by Toni Morrison on a bookplate affixed to top of front end page (signature only). $18.95 price on DJ flap; mylar protected. Pulitizer Prize wining novel. From the 1998 Jonathan Demme film version of the novel: Attached to front end page is a card SIGNED by JASON ROBARDS (played 'Mr. Bodwin'); and another card SIGNED by TRACEY WALTER (played 'Slave Catcher'). Attached to second page is a card SIGNED by IRMA P. HALL (played 'Ella'); and a bookplate SIGNED by EDWIDGE DANTICAT (played 'The Thirty Women'). Laid-in (not attached) is a color photo SIGNED by JONATHAN DEMME (the film's director); a small color photo SIGNED by AKOSUA BUSIA (wrote the screenplay); a B&W photo card SIGNED by CHARLES NAPIER (played the 'Angry Carny'); and another card SIGNED by HAROLD GOULD (played 'Barber Shop Man #4'). (Bonus: Comes with a unsigned 1st printing hardcover copy of Morrison's novel "Paradise")-- Note: NO international orders for this item. Unique item for the Morrison--Beloved fan or collector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
MORRISON, Toni.. Beloved. A Novel.. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987, 1987.
Price: US$1256.26 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the first blank, "For Nancy. Best wishes, Toni Morrison". Beloved is Morrison's most acclaimed work and earned her the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A film adaptation, starring Oprah Winfrey, was released in 1998. Writing in the New York Times, John Irving described the work as "another triumph" and praised Morrison's "versatility and technical and emotional range [which] appear to know no bounds. Beloved is written in an antiminimalist prose that is by turns rich, graceful, eccentric, rough, lyrical, sinuous, colloquial and very much to the point" (29 March 1987). Octavo. Original cream cloth, spine lettering and front cover decoration in silver, publisher's device on rear cover in blind. With dust jacket. Cloth lightly mottled, foxing to top edge, faint endpaper offsetting, contents clean; jacket slightly creased, mild toning to spine and upper edges, colours bright, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Morrison, Toni. Beloved Trilogy: Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: First editions of the Nobel Prize-winning author's Beloved trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison in each volume. Each are fine in a fine dust jackets. Toni Morrisonâs âBeloved trilogy,â as she herself called it (The Paris Review, 1993). Beloved is set in post-Civil War Ohio, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel concerns a runaway slave and her daughter, whose lives are disrupted by a former slave, a spirit and a woman named Beloved. "A masterwork. . . . I cant imagine American literature without it" (John Leonard, Los Angeles Times). It was the basis for the movie Beloved, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandie Newton.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.