BELOVED, INSCRIBED BY TONI MORRISON IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION
MORRISON, Toni. Beloved. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Octavo, original cream-colored cloth, original dust jacket. $1700.
First edition of Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning story of escaped slave Sethe and her relationship with a "disturbing, mesmerizing intruder who calls herself Beloved," inscribed on the half title, "For L— P— Toni Morrison 10.23.1987."
"Morrison's versatility and technical and emotional range appear to know no bounds" (Margaret Atwood). "She recreates the interior life of black slaves with a moving intensity no novelist even approached before" (Walter Clemons). Basis for the 1998 Jonathan Demme film starring Oprah Winfrey. "First Edition" stated on copyright page.
Dust jacket with faint toning, one short closed tear to spine head. A nearly fine copy.