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Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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MORRISON, Toni (1931-2019). Song of Solomon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
8vo. Original black cloth gold-lettered on spine; publisher's pictorial dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY with calligraphic inscription from Morrison on front free endpaper. Morrison's third novel, Song of Solomon, follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III. The novel won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was cited by the Swedish Academy when Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
[With:] MORRISON. Tar Baby. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. 8vo. Original cream cloth; publisher's pictorial dust jacket. FIRST EDITION