Roots
by HALEY, ALEX
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. Later printing. Signed and inscribed by the author Alex Haley: “For Claire - with best wishes! Alex Haley”. Near fine copy with a hint of handling in a very good slightly dust soiled dust jacket with a few small chips and tears. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The basis of the 1977 mini-series on ABC starring Levar Burton as Kunta Kinte, Leslie Uggams, and Ben Vereen which received 37 Emmy nominations and won 9. It was also awarded a Golden Globe. It was also adapted into a 2016 mini-series for the History channel with Malachi Kirby as Kunta Kinte, Forest Whitaker, Anna Paquin, Laurence Fishburne, Mekhi Phifer, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
Synopsis
Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22472E
- Title
- Roots
- Author
- HALEY, ALEX
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1976
Terms of Sale
James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
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About the Seller
James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2005
Santa Barbara, California
About James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
We are long-term members of the Antiquarian Bookseller's Association of America. We specialize in American & English Literature, Mystery & Detective Fiction, Rare Cinema Material, Autograph & Signed Material, and an Eclectic Offering of Literature & Ephemera.
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