Bluest Eye by Morrison Toni, Signed (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 5th or later Edition. Near fine sixteenth printing signed by Toni Morrison on the title page. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Slight crease to bottom right corner. Minor wear to edges. Overall a lovely copy signed by Morrison. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 3rd printing. 164p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 21 cm. SIGNED on title page by Morrison ("Toni Morrison").

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Third Printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Second issue DJ. Unclipped DJ in archival cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Holt, Rinehart, Winston. New York. 1971. 164 pages. First edition, second printing stated. Rare, original DJ with paragraphs of text printed on the front of the DJ; the back of DJ is a full-panel head shot of a young Toni Morrison rocking an afro. The first printing of this title was published October 1970; in a tiny quantity. An equally small printing of the stated second printing was published just eight months later in June of 1971. This book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Gray paper-covered boards quarter-bound in blue cloth; titles stamped in silver on backstrip. Corners are sharp. Endpapers are bright. Pages lay tight in seemingly unread condition. This book's only flaw is minor sunning along panel edges. Original DJ is bright, clean and attractive. $5.95 price-clipped from flap. Laid-in is a hand-signed, adhesive-backed, Toni Morrison bookplate on a publisher's bookplate. A superb stated second printing of the Nobel laureate's first book, in its rare, original text-laden DJ, with a publisher's hand-signed bookplate loosely laid-in. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition, Second Printing. Octavo, 164 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good dust jacket. Off-white spine with blue and black text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has light toning, with tape over tear to head edge of front cover, large closed tears to head and tail edge of rear cover, slight tearing to head edge of front cover, and slight chipping to corners. Boards have mild edge wear and small white mark on front joint. Text block has slight creasing and tearing to head edge of pages 21-30. Signed by Toni Morrison on front free endpaper. Includes two photos of Morrison from book signing. Shelved in Case 6. 1371710. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

First edition of Morrison's classic first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison on the title page. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the $5.95 price and 1070 on the bottom of front flap, with some expert restoration. Dust jacket design by Herb Lubalin and Jay Tribich. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell slipcase. Set in Lorain, Ohio, in 1941, The Bluest Eye is something of an ensemble piece. The point of view is passed like a baton from one character to the next, with Morrison's own voice functioning as a kind of gold standard throughout. The focus, though, is on an 11-year-old black girl named Pecola Breedlove, whose entire family has been given a cosmetic cross to bear: You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question. And they took the ugliness in their hands, threw it as a mantle over them, and went about the world with it. There are far uglier things in the world than, well, ugliness, and poor Pecola is subjected to most of them. She's spat upon, ridiculed, and ultimately raped and impregnated by her own father. No wonder she yearns to be the very opposite of what she is--yearns, in other words, to be a white child, possessed of the blondest hair and the bluest eye. "Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is an inquiry into the reasons why beauty gets wasted in this country. The beauty in this case is black. [Miss Morrison's prose is] so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.I have said 'poetry,' but The Bluest Eye is also history, sociology, folklore, nightmare and music" (John Leonard, The New York Times).

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Toni Morrison and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original paper boards over blue cloth spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with light toning to contents. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly toned and with some faint streaks of browning as typically seen with this dust jacket, and a small strip of offsetting to the blindside at the spine. A much nicer copy than normally encountered of the author's scarce first novel.