Description: Alex Haley SIGNED Roots, 1st Edition- copyright 1976 This book with dustjacket is in very good condition -Book Club Dustjacket is in good condition with mostly edge wear - inside is very good - no torn or missing pages in the book ...... (see photos) SIGNED on 1st page "To Yvonne love! Alex Haley" If you are of a certain age and were anywhere near the United States in early 1977, you probably remember the bona fide social phenomenon that was the first airing of the miniseries Roots. For a week in late January, across the country, Roots parties were the rage, while across all media a national conversation began on the always uncomfortable question of slavery and its contribution to America’s course and character. At the same time, Roots, the book, continued to fly off the shelves, a bestseller with more substance than most. Published in August 1976, nicely timed for a bicentennial year, Roots had already touched off a genealogy craze. Its author, Reader’s Digest senior editor Alex Haley, professed to be a little surprised at his book’s quick success, but there was nothing quick about its making. For a decade, Haley said, he had been making false and true starts on bits and pieces of an oral history that his grandmother had related to him back home in Tennessee, a history that worked its way across fields and rivers to the ocean, and thence to a mighty river. There Haley’s 120-chapter epic begins: “Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.” That man-child would be named Kunta, in honor of his Mauritania-born grandfather. Soon he would bear another name, and only memories of that place. Also listed Joan Crawford SIGNED, Carole Landis, Eve Arden SIGNED, Jeff Chandler, Pola Negri, Julie Andrews SIGNED, George Sanders, Rudolph Valentino, Shirley Temple SIGNED, & other Hollywood items ...!!! Thanks for looking and happy bidding Combine postage offered
Price: 59 USD
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Signed: Yes
Special Attributes: Signed, 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Inscribed
Author: Alex Haley
Topic: Historical
Modified Item: Yes
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
Year Printed: 1976
