‎Haley alex‎

‎Haley Alex‎

‎ROOTS‎

‎Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc. 1976. First Edition early issue $12.50 price on dustjacket no statement. Thick 8vo publisher’s original cloth backed boards lettered and decorated in gilt. viii 587 pp. A very fine and clean copy with only the very lightest mellowing to the jacket and some very light edgewear to the foot of the jacket. AN AMERICAN CLASSIC. The saga of an American family and one of the great bestsellers of the 1970’s. In this work Haley became the first African-American citizen to trace his lineage back to Africa and so for over 25000000 Americans of African descent rediscovered a rich cultural heritage that slavery had effectively buried. Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover‎

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‎HALEY ALEX‎

‎Roots‎

‎hutchinson auckland 1977. first nz edition 688pp VG sl.soiledboards and spine sl.shakyeps and edges sl.soiled in VG d/w sl.soiled and sunnedsl.wear to extrems. hutchinson auckland 1977 hardcover‎

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‎HALEY Alex‎

‎Typed draft page annotated‎

‎1975. HALEY Alex. Typed draft page annotated. No place circa 1975. Single sheet of goldenrod paper measuring 8-1/2 by 11 inches; matted and framed with photographic image from Roots entire piece measures 14 by 24 inches. $3800.Rare typed page from an early book draft of Roots heavily annotated in green felt-tip marker in Alex Haley�s own hand handsomely matted and framed with a photographic group portrait from the movie set of the Roots miniseries.This typed page is from an early draft of Alex Haley�s Roots one of the most popular works of African-American historical fiction ever written. Alex Haley has heavily annotated in his own hand in green felt-tip marker. The page details the changes Haley made to the conversation between Miss Malizy and the slave Kizzy a scene which occurs when Kizzy is first separated from her parents and sold to her new owner. �Haley�s most celebrated novel Roots has been compared to both Moby Dick and War and Peace. The Washington Post called it the most highly acclaimed book of our time� The author immediately became a household name as he won over 270 awards. A phenomenon of the decade Roots mesmerized Americans and readers of literature throughout the world. No novel since the publications of Uncle Tom�s Cabin and Gone With the Wind captured the public interest on the subject of slavery and its ramifications� In Roots Haley successfully traced his ancestors with a birth in 1750 in Gambia through oral history with painstaking research and thereby put into perspective the historical background of millions of other African Americans� Haley�s 12 years of work on Roots won him a special Pulitzer prize on April 18 1977� Blockson 3939. Fine condition. unknown‎

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