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Published by Doubleday, 1976
ISBN 10: 0385037872ISBN 13: 9780385037877
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. Stated first edition. Inscribed and signed by the author on a note affixed to the front free endpaper. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows minor wear, tear, creasing and tanning. Cover shows minor wear, pages are clean.
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Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976
ISBN 10: 0385037872ISBN 13: 9780385037877
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First edition. Signed by author with inscription, "11/1/76 For George--my very best wishes!" Multiple tears and chips to jacket edges which have been mended with tape. 1976 Hard Cover. viii, 587 pp. "Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, transported to North America; following his life and the lives of his descendants in the United States down to Haley. The release of the novel, combined with its hugely popular television adaptation, Roots (1977), led to a cultural sensation in the United States. The novel spent forty-six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List, including twenty-two weeks at number one. The last seven chapters of the novel were later adapted in the form of a second miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations (1979). It stimulated interest in African American genealogy and an appreciation for African-American history.[1]The book was originally described as "fiction," yet sold in the non-fiction section of bookstores. Haley spent the last chapter of the book describing his research in archives and libraries to support his family's oral tradition with written records. However, historians and genealogists found critical errors in his research. Most of the novel is either unsupported or contradicted by the available evidence.[citation needed]"--Wikipedia. Signed by author.
Published by Doubleday September 1976, 1976
ISBN 10: 0385037872ISBN 13: 9780385037877
Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: SIGNED / VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. LAID IN BOOK CARD WITH HALEY'S SIGNATURE, UNDATED. FIRST PRINTING.used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws. Signed By Author.
Published by Doubleday, New York, 1976
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Original cloth fine in a near fine dust jacket, an 1st edition 2nd issue with the 12.50 original price on the flap and photo on verso of the jacket, no mention of first edition as required of a 1st ed 1st issue but not a book clup, just a 2nd issue of the First edition in the original cloth signed by Alex Haley on the front leaf to the title page bold ink. fine copy Basis of the TV famous series. starring James Earl Jones and LaVar Burton. Signed by Author(s).
Published by London Hutchinson 1977, 1977
ISBN 10: 0091296803ISBN 13: 9780091296803
Book First Edition Signed
viii, 688 p., hardback with dust jacket mylar-protected. First UK edition.- Signed by the author of flyleaf "Ann - warm wishes from Kunta Kintes' family".- Side cut with some foxing.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1976
ISBN 10: 0385037872ISBN 13: 9780385037877
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. First edition. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 587pp. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Stated first edition. Paper covered boards in dust jacket. Original price of $12.50 present on front jacket flap. Name written on front flap. Small closed tear to head of jacket spine. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Later printing. Light edgewear to hardcover. Light tanning to top of text block. Unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed by the author and dated October 29, 1988 on the front free endpaper. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Doubleday & Co. New York, 1976
Seller: David Kaye Books & Memorabilia, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
2nd Printing Hardcover SIGNED and warmly inscribed by author Haley on the free front endpaper to former Walt Disney Company president Card Walker and his wife Winnie; near fine in very good price-clipped dust jacket; gentle wear to jacket edges, some rubbing to jacket back, small ink mark across top of jacket spine, minor dent to bottom of front board else a tight square unmarked copy in clipped dust jacket; an early printing in the smaller first printing format; inscription reads: "For Card and Winnie Walker, Warmest wishes to you.from me and the whole ROOTS family of Kunta Kinte - Most sincerely, Alex Haley (Aug. 2, 1981)".
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine book with tight binding likely unread. Housed in a Fine dustjacket, with a small closed tear at the top of the back cover, otherwise without any other obvious defects and minimal wear, a fine collectable copy. First edition, later issue. The book is also signed and inscribed to Elizabeth Taylor Ellis, the grandaughter of J Will Taylor (Member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee 2nd district, serving from March 4th 1919 - Nove 14 1939). The inscription reads, "Oct 9 1988 To Elizabeth Taylor Ellis, granddaughter of J Will Taylor, A Tennessee statesman - Alex Haley". Signature was obtained during a meeting at the Appalachia Museum in Andersonville in 1988. ROOTS is a saga of dislocation and strength in the face of brutality, reckoning with the complexities of ancestry in the African diaspora caused by the transatlantic slave trade. It begins in 1750 on the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, tracing the lives of multiple generations up to the birth of Haley himself. Michael Eric Dyson explains what ROOTS represented to the descendants of slaves in the United States: "No longer were we genealogical nomads [. ] Haley wrote black folk into the book of American heritage and gave us the confidence to believe that we could find our forebears even as he shared his own" ("Haley's Comet"). The 1977 television adaptation was a major cultural event, with an audience of nearly half the American population (NEW YORK TIMES). Washington Post said it is, "the most highly acclaimed book of our time" ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 688 pages; Signed by Author.
Published by Doubleday, 1976
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition. ROOTS, Doubleday, 1976, first edition, near fine in vg dust-wrapper with some slight wear and tear. SIGNED by the author.
Published by Hutchinson 1977, 1977
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
Condition: Very Good. First edition, first printing published by Hutchinson in 1977. The title is on the spine in gilt. Overall condition - very good/excellent - the book is very clean and bright - Internally - all complete and in overall excellent condition - clean and bright. The book is complete with d/w - which is in very good conditionThe book is inscribed and dated by the author on fep: "Alas, the book is not of fish, but so glad to know you, dear Vivian and Bill, who have deep "roots" in my much admired Britain. Now come see one of your "colonials" Thats ? with affection May 6, 1979".
Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1976
Seller: Bowman Books, Wooster, OH, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. SIGNED by Haley on the front endpaper (no inscription). First Edition stated. Clean, tight hardcover bound in quarter cloth with unmarked interior and text. The dust jacket remains unclipped ($12.50) and presents well under fresh archival mylar despite a few small chips and short closed tears. NOT ex-lib. A well-preserved, signed first edition in jacket of this important and influential work. 587pp. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Doubleday, Garden City, 1976
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Octavo, 587pp. A crisp, clean, very good copy, with some isolated foxing to the top edge, some ink notations on the rear free endpaper (only), otherwise a nice example. In a very good dust jacket, with some shallow chips at the spine ends. SIGNED by Haley on the front free endpaper.
Condition: Near fine. First state dust jacket. Inscribed first edition of the famed epic of the African diaspora, warmly presented by Haley in the year of publication. ROOTS is a saga of dislocation and strength in the face of brutality, reckoning with the complexities of ancestry in the African diaspora caused by the transatlantic slave trade. It begins in 1750 on the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, tracing the lives of multiple generations up to the birth of Haley himself. Michael Eric Dyson explains what ROOTS represented to the descendants of slaves in the United States: "No longer were we genealogical nomads [.] Haley wrote black folk into the book of American heritage and gave us the confidence to believe that we could find our forebears even as he shared his own" ("Haley's Comet"). The 1977 television adaptation was a major cultural event, with an audience of nearly half the American population (NEW YORK TIMES). A triumph of the archives and an American touchtone. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter cloth with brown paper boards. Gilt-lettered spine with brown-stamped spine label. Original price-clipped typographic dust jacket designed by Al Nagy, photographic portrait of the author on rear panel by Alex Gotfryd. Fore edge machine deckle. x, 587, [1] pages. Inscribed by Haley: "11/30/76 / Tom and Barbara McDermott, / I want to join Stan and / Marilyn in wishing you a / Very Merry Christmas! / Alex Haley." A touch of edgewear to jacket spine extremities, light soiling to top edge.
Published by Doubleday & Co., New York, 1976
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Roots by Alex Haley. Signed and inscribed first printing in dust jacket. Publisher: Doubleday & Co., New York, 1976. First printing with first edition notation on the copyright page. Inscribed, signed and dated on the first free endpaper. Jacket is in very good plus to near fine condition, very slight wear to corners. Binding is in near fine condition. Dust jacket is not price clipped with a price of $12.95. Contents clean. 587 pages. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #14-276. Price: $450. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Signed by Author.
Published by NY. Doubleday & Co. 1976., 1976
ISBN 10: 0385037872ISBN 13: 9780385037877
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. A signed presentation copy of Haley's blockbuster saga : "October 29, 1980. To Brooke, warm wishes from the whole family of Kunta Kinte! Alex Haley" inscribed on the title page. Handsomely bound in black cloth spine printed in gold with tan paper-covered boards; in a very good plus, complete, lightly edge-rubbed dust jacket with the original price of $12.50 at the top of the inside front flap. First Edition. Inscribed by Author(s).
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Contemporary signed presentation copy, and it's a good association, inscribed in ink, "September 1976. Dinah Shore, lovely, gracious lady - from our family to your family! Sincerely, Alex Haley." Some storage unit mustiness, else near fine in a very good dustjacket. This is Haley's quest for his genealogical history, starting in 1750 (contrast today when "roots" means the Church of the Magic Moonbeam tracing its origins all the way back to 2004). And Roots was a 'just what it needed' contribution to America's bicentennial, historically enlightening and emotionally rewarding. It won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize and, in 1977, it became the prototype television documentary miniseries, winning 9 Emmys.
Published by Doubleday & Company, New York, 1976
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Early Printing. Early Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Author. ROOTS. THE SAGA OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY. Presentation Copy. Early Trade Edition with a very warm full page presentation inscribed by Haley on the ffe. dated 11 / 11 / 76: "Paul Jones. Kunta's family wishes the very warm best to you and your family! - Alex Haley". 8vo. 587 pp. A near fine copy in original 1/4 black and bronze cloth covered boards gilt lettered at the spine in a very good dustwrapper with a closed tear at the bottom of the rear panel. Acknowledged more as a work of the imagination today rather than strict scholarship, Roots was the publishing sensation of the 1970's & remains the most important 20th century literary event in black literature. It was adapted into the hugely popular, 12-hour television miniseries, ROOTS, in 1977 [The first ever TV miniseries], & a 14-hour sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, in 1979. Haley earned a Pulitzer Prize special award in 1977 for Roots & the television miniseries garnered numerous awards, including nine Emmys & a Peabody. Roots is Haley's second book following his collaboration on The Autobiography of Malcolm X. A nice example of this important title.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1976
ISBN 10: 0385037872ISBN 13: 9780385037877
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Leather bound. Condition: Near fine. Signed limited edition of Roots by Alex Haley. (illustrator). First Edition / Limited Edition. Octavo, viii, 587pp. Brown leather, title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Top edge gilt. This copy appears largely unread. Housed in publisher's slipcase. From a limited edition of 500 copies, signed by Alex Haley, this is number 371. Roots received a Pulitzer Prize special award in 1977.
Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc, Garden City, New York, 1976
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition limited to 500 signed and numbered copies (this, no. 123); 8vo, pp. [2], viii, 587, [1]; a fine copy of this Pulitzer Prize winner in publisher's full brown leather, gilt-stamped spine, publisher's slipcase.
Published by Doubleday, New York, 1976
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Good- dust jacket. Rubbing, few open tears along panel edges and spine crown/heel. ; Personalized by author on most of FEP. ; Signed by Author.