“THE FIRST CHILD OF OMORO AND BINTA KINTE IS NAMED KUNTA!”: SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF ROOTS

HALEY, Alex. Roots. Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. Thick octavo, original full brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, original cardboard slipcase. $950.

Signed limited first edition, number 76 of 500 copies signed by the author.

One of the most widely acclaimed of American novels, Roots "has been compared to both Moby Dick and War and Peace… 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 and stimulated other Americans to trace their family's roots… Haley's 12 years of work on Roots won him a special Pulitzer prize on April 18, 1977" (Blockson, Collector's Choice 100). "Roots is a study of continuities, of consequences, of how a people perpetuate themselves, how each generation helps to doom, or helps to liberate, the coming one" (Books of the Century, 500). Blockson 3939.

Fine condition.