Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

Song of Solomon [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]

Morrison, Toni

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [10] 337 [1]pp. Original black cloth with blind-stamped lettering on cover, gilt lettering on spine, in original, color-illustrated dustjacket with red and black lettering on spine. Signed Toni Morrison on title page.

"Three years after her critically acclaimed Sula, Toni Morrison gives us a novel of large beauty and power, creating a magical world out of four generations of black life in America. It is a world we enter in the present, through Macon Dead, Jr. (known as milkman), son of the richest black family in a midwestern town. We enter it on the day of his birth (the first black baby allowed to be born at Mercy–popularly called "No Mercy" Hospital), the day on which the lonely insurance man Robert Smith, poised in blue silk wings, attempts to fly from the steeple of the hospital, black Icarus looking homeward..." (Publisher). Near fine condition. Item #56088
ISBN: 0394497848

Price: $1,450.00