Bluest Eye, Signed (9 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).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. Second Printing stated. Octavo (21.5cm). 164pp. Printed dust jacket with price clipped. Blue publisher's cloth with gray paper-covered boards. Dust jacket toned with rubbing and chips along edges and near folds. Boards shelfworn with toning to edges and cloth sun-faded. Binding sound. Pages unmarked. Edges foxed. Dampstain on top right corner of text block (through page 43), text unaffected but there is a slight ripple to the text block. Ownership inscription on flyleaf verso: "Cee Cee - I am so grateful, Shel" and the name "Mary Celeste" written in green ink on the dedication page. Overall, a very good copy with a good to very good dust jacket. Signed twice by author Toni Morrison without inscription, once on the title page and once above the text on the first page of the novel. Morrison's first novel, which received minimal critical attention upon publication, and of which she said in 1993, "the initial publication of The Bluest Eye was like Pecola's life: dismissed, trivialized, misread." Reference: Tessa Roynon, The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison (2013), p. 22.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition, Signed by Toni Morrison on title page. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. first. Stated first edition on copyright page. SIGNED bookplate laid-in. Book fine, former owner's bookplate attached to front free end paper, number stamped on copyright page. Dust jacket fine, wrinkle from ex-fold to rear flap. Flap price $5.95. Comes in supplied slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 216pp. Black cloth, silver titles on spine. Square, clean, unmarked copy, in a crisp dust jacket, housed in a mylar sleeve. Oprah's Book Club designation on front panel. Jacket is unclipped. Signed by Morrison in black on title page. Edition contains a new afterword by Morrison. Debut novel announced a startling new talent and was Morrison's first step toward an eventual Nobel Prize in Literature. Uncommon signed in any edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in wraps. ; Signed by Toni Morrison on title page. ; Signed by Author.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First British Edition. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Toni Morrison on the half-title page. [vi], 164 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth-affect paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket with publisher's price increase sticker to front flap. An incredibly clean signed copy of the author's first book, published nine years after the novel appeared in the United States.

First edition, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Paul Bartel, Regards, Toni Morrison". Bartel (1938-2000) was an actor and director, best known for his black comedy Eating Raoul (1982). Morrison wrote the novel, her debut, "in stolen moments between her day job as a book editor and her life as the single mother of two young sons" (Fox). It received little critical attention on publication, though the distinguished critic John Leonard was unstinting in his praise, describing Morrison's prose as "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry" (Leonard). It has since been widely praised for "cut[ting] a new path through the American literary landscape by placing black girls at the center of the story" (Als). Its lasting importance was recognized in 1993, when Morrison received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Hilton Als, "Toni Morrison's Profound and Unrelenting Vision", New Yorker, 27 January 2020; Margalit Fox, "Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88", New York Times, 6 August 2019; John Leonard, "Three First Novels on Race", New York Times, 13 November 1970. Octavo. Original blue quarter cloth, spine lettered in silver, grey paper-covered sides. With dust jacket. Book label of William A. Strutz (1934-2024) to front pastedown. Spine ends lightly sunned; jacket unclipped, lightly toned as usual, vertical creases to flaps as often: a near-fine copy in near-fine jacket.

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.