Song of Solomon

Song of SolomonSong of Solomon by Toni Morrison First edition, first printing $300. 00. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1977. A near fine first of the book and the dust jacket with some lightening to the spine of the dust jacket. This book is cited by the Swedish Academy in awarding Morrison the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Authors third novel. A sharp copy. Hard to believe the book is 50 years old.

The corners are bumped and the binding slightly cocked with no owner’s signature or bookplates

The front panel of the dust jacket is vivid and rich

Some great Kafka in this edition

The dust jacket is not price clipped and has a striking front panel

The signed true first can command over $10

Historian and Bibliophile

first printing $275

Very clean internally with no owner’s signatures or other marks

by Thomas Pynchon First edition

One of thirteen publications of Candide in 1759 according to the New York Public Library which has in its Rare Book Room all 13 of these editions which have been displayed on occasion but not allowed to touch

all original

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