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Lot 13
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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600
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$531
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Lot Description
[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. MORRISON, Toni (1931-2019). Sula. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
8vo. Original orange cloth gilt-lettered; in unrestored and unclipped FIRST ISSUE dust jacket with 1/74 code to lower left and other points.
FIRST EDITION of Morrison's second novel set in the remnants of a black neighborhood in fictional Medallion, Ohio which was destroyed so that a golf course could be constructed. Sula was integrally important to the emergence of Black Feminist Literary Theory.