Mercy by Morrison, Signed (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Pale blue boards over gray spine, 167pp flat signed by the author under her name on the title page in black pen. Just the faintest hint of dust spotting to top edge, otherwise contents completely unmarked and like new. Illustrated green dust jacket with a small short split at base of spine, otherwise completely unmarked. Photos on request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dust jacket in protective cover. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First UK printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Book & Near Fine Jacket, price sticker scab mainly on ISBN , Signed below name to title page, 1st ed 1st pt , pictures on request,in protective cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Signed by Morrison on the title page. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($23.95), a spot of soiling on the spine and front panel. Quarter grey cloth with pale blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Morrison's novel that explores the emotional toll of slavery in 1680s Americas. Signed.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. First Edition, stated. Octavo (24cm). Pictorial dust jacket with $23.95 price present. Gray boards stamped in gilt. 167 pp. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges; some slight creasing near head of spine. Boards show a touch of wear to extremities. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Overall, book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Signed by Toni Morrison without inscription on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition, First Printing. First printing of the first American edition. The English edition was issued days before the American. This copy is flatsigned on the title page by the Nobel Prize winner. Signed by TONI MORRISON and SL.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. The true first edition of the Nobel Prize winning author's book, recognized by the N.Y. Times as a notable book and one of the 5 best works of fiction in 2008. Signed by the author with no flaws. A vividly poetic account of colonial American life, "A Mercy" focuses on the intertwined lives of several marginalized women and the tragic psychological consequences of slavery. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A novel. Stated first edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.; 167 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New/Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New/Fine. First Edition. As New/Fine, clean, crisp, unread first edition with the full number line including the 1, SIGNED to the title page with the author's name only. SIGNED.

signed fifth printing, 2008. new york: alfred a. knopf. isbn: 9780307264237. 6 x 9.75 inches. 167 pages. hardcover. bound in grey paper-covered boards. book condition: fine. jacket condition: unclipped (23.95). near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Format is 6 inches by 9.5 inches. [10], 167, [1] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Map illustration on title page. Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved; she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Born and raised in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison graduated from Howard University in 1953 with a B.A. in English. She earned a master's degree in American Literature from Cornell University in 1955. Morrison became the first black female editor in fiction at Random House in New York City in the late 1960s. She developed her own reputation as an author in the 1970s and '80s. Her work Beloved was made into a film in 1998. Morrison's works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the United States and the Black American experience. The National Endowment for the Humanities selected Morrison for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities, in 1996. She was honored with the National Book Foundation's Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters the same year. President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 29, 2012. Morrison was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2020. A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old Florens can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . . At the novel's heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter, a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. Derived from a Kirkus review: Abandonment, betrayal and loss are the somber themes of this latest exploration of America's morally compromised history from Morrison. All the characters she sets down in the colonial landscape circa 1690 are bereft, none more evidently so than Florens, 16-year-old slave of Jacob Vaark and his wife Rebekka. Eight years earlier, Anglo-Dutch farmer and trader Jacob reluctantly took Florens in settlement of a debt from a Maryland landowner. Her own mother offered herâ"so as not to be traded with Florens' infant brother, the girl thinks. (The searing final monologue reveals it was not so simple.) Florens joined a household of misfits somewhere in the North. Jacob was a poor orphan who came to America to make a new start; Rebekka's parents essentially sold her to him to spare themselves her upkeep. The couple has shared love, but also sadness; all four of their offspring died in childhood. They take in others similarly devastated. Lina, raped by a "Europe," has been cast out by her Native American tribe. Mixed-race Sorrow survived a shipwreck only to be made pregnant by her rescuer, who handed her over to Jacob. Willard and Scully are indentured servants, farmed out to labor for Jacob by their contract holders, who keep fraudulently extending their time. Only the free African blacksmith who helps Jacob construct his fancy new houseâ"and who catches Florens' love-starved eyeâ"seems whole and self-sufficient, though he eventually falls prey to Florens' raging fear of abandonment. Morrison's point, made in a variety of often-melodramatic plot developments, is that America was founded on the involuntary servitude of blacks and whites, that the colonies are rife with people who belong nowhere else and anxiously strive to find something to hold onto in the New World. Gorgeous language and powerful understanding of the darkest regions in the human heart compensate for the slightly schematic nature of the characters and the plot. Better seen as a lengthy prose poem than a novel, this allusive, elusive little gem adds its own shadowy luster to the Nobel laureate's shimmering body of work. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Flat signed to title page. Superb copy of Nobel Prize winners work. Not price clipped and in protective cover. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition. First printing. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (her name only, without any other writing). Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Hardbound. Octavo. 167 pp. Gray boards stamped in gilt. A clean, crisp unread copy. Toni Morrison's ninth novel. In 2024, it was ranked 47th in the New York Times list of the best 100 books of the 21st century. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New, unread, stated First Edition signed by Ms. Morrison in black marker on the title page. Stored after signing at Sixth & I in Washington, DC, December 4, 2008. Signed by Author(s).

Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED BY TONI MORRISON on the title page. A pristine copy to boot of the 2008 stated 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. An historical novel set in the early years of the Atlantic slave trade. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A very near fine copy in a like dust jacket. Minor edge wear. Signed by Morrison on the title page.

First edition of "one of Morrison's most haunting works yetâ (The New York Times). Octavo, original half-cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in âflesh,â he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives. A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughterâ"a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. âSpellbinding. . . . Dazzling. . . . [A Mercy] stands alongside Beloved as a unique triumph" (The Washington Post Book World).

First edition of "one of Morrison's most haunting works yetâ (The New York Times). Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in âflesh,â he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives. A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughterâ"a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. âSpellbinding. . . . Dazzling. . . . [A Mercy] stands alongside Beloved as a unique triumph" (The Washington Post Book World).

Softcover. Advanced Reader's Edition. Octavo, 169 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine blue with white lettering. Minor shelf wear. Interior pages clean. Signed flat by Toni Morrison on title page. DL consignment. Shelved Case 7. 1392866. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); pale blue and grey paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[4],5-167,[1]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $23.95). Sharp copy of Morrison's ninth novel, set in colonial American during the late 17th century, and centered around the life of a European farmer, his purchased wife, and his household of indentured and enslaved persons. Listed as one of the New York Times "100 Best Books of the 21st Century." 8216.