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Rare original typescript manuscript leaf from an early draft of Alex Haley's Roots, “the most highly acclaimed book of our time” (Washington Post). Double matted with two large full-color photographs from Haley's estate taken in the tiny village of Juffure in northern Gambia where Haley first met his African relatives of the Kinte clan including the griot whose stories were one of the inspirations for the Roots. The manuscript reads in part, "He don't travel nowhere in dat coach of his'n dats pulled by matching chestnut colored hosses, Lawd. An dat coach don't roll widout his liquor chest dat look jes' like any other suitcase." Haley has made numerous corrections to this portion of the text and added several paragraphs in his hand. In very good condition. Published in October 1976 amid significant advance expectations, Roots was immediately successful, garnering a slew of positive reviews and debuting at #5 of The New York Times Best Seller list. By mid-November, it had risen to the #1 spot on the… Read More

Rare original typescript manuscript leaf from an early draft of Alex Haley's Roots, “the most highly acclaimed book of our time” (Washington Post). Double matted with a large full-color photograph from Haley's estate taken in the tiny village of Juffure in northern Gambia where Haley first met his African relatives of the Kinte clan in 1967 including the griot whose stories were one of the inspirations for the Roots. The photograph shows The GriotKebba Banga Fofana speaking about the Kinte clan's ancestral oral history. The manuscript reads in part, "Within the next ten minutes there, the news had every adult congratulating "Chicken George" for hacing maneuvered such an opportunity for his talented twelve year old Tom." Haley has made numerous corrections to this portion of the text and added several paragraphs in his hand. In near fine condition. Published in October 1976 amid significant advance expectations, Roots was immediately successful, garnering a slew of positive reviews and debuting at… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. Uncorrected Proof. Hardcover. Very good +. Octavo, 569pp. Very good or better in the publisher's grey printed wraps. Spine mildly cupped and age-toned, with a few tiny creases to the wraps. Contents clean and unmarked. Stamp of Crane's Duplicating Service in Barnstable, Mass. to the interior rear wrapper. Extremely uncommon uncorrected proof copy of one of the most celebrated and influential novels of the 20th century, which spent nearly a year at number 1 on the New York Times Best-Seller List, won the Pulitzer Prize, and was adapted into a very popular miniseries the next year. Some differences we note between the proof and the first trade printing are the blank "Acknowledgements" page, a full sentence later removed from the Dedication (in the proof, it reads: "Just by chance [Roots] is being published in the Bicentennial Year of the United States." Spot-checking did not reveal any obvious differences in the narrative text between the two formats. However, the proof… Read More

London: Hutchinson, 1977. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. First English edition. Unprinted white wrappers. Light spotting on the wrappers else fine. Advance proof copy of the first English edition. Basis for the 1977 miniseries starring John Amos, Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton, and Louis Gossett Jr.

New York: Doubleday. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 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 .

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. 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.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. First Edition / Limited Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. Signed limited edition of Roots by Alex Haley.. 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.

Doubleday, 1976. Signed First Edition. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, Haley told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. Later a television series.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1976. First state dust jacket. Near fine.. 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… Read More

New York: Doubleday.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385037872 . First trade edition. INSCRIBED & dated on January 31, 1977 by Alex Haley on a 4" X 5" piece of lined paper neatly laid-in. "Will Sanders - the very warm best to you and your family from the family of Kunta Kinte!" Fine in near fine dust jacket. (1"-inch neatly repaired tear at upper seam of spine on rear panel. Couple small edge nicks in jacket. ) Pulitzer Prize winner & basis for the television mini-series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 587 pages .

Doubleday, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fair. Large, thick book, black cloth spine, dark gra;y boards, purple background at spine top with very bright gilt lettering, lightly browned at pages' exterior edges. On first front end paper, a note printed by a child presenting book as Christmas gift to her Daddy, a black Vice-President of Merrilll Lynch. Then in black felt-tip pen: "Oct 24, 1984. To Dan and LaRease--Love from Kunta Kinte's family! Alex Haley." Price inside DJ front flap--$12.50, gutter code on final page, R44. DJ beneath mylar, glossy cream spine and front border, front background in shades of orange to title and author's name on front and all of back. DJ has 3.5" tear at bottom front tip up bookfold edge, 2" tear with very slight wear to bottom front edge next to spine, white portions lightly browned overall, microtears and micronicks along spine edges, tiny chip and very slight surface wear to bottom back tip and back edge nearer spine, very slight surface wear along bottom… Read More

New York: Doubleday. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Light rubbing, open tearing along panel edges. Light foxing on top/side text block edge. Creasing and wear to DJ. Stated First Edition. .

Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 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.

New York: Doubleday. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385037872 . Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. ; 9.2 X 5.9 X 1.8 inches; 688 pages .

Light wear; board edges gently rubbed; jacket lightly toned, chipped and torn. Very good. KWH-668. Alex Haley. Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1976. First edition. Octavo. 587pp. Publisher's black quarter cloth over brown hardcover paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped jacket listing a retail price of $12.50. .

Hutchinson, 1977. Hardcover. 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"

Radnor, Pa: Triangle Publications, 1977. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. Various paginations, ads. Illustrated. Wrappers illustrated by Romare Bearden. Small chip on rear wrap, a bit of rubbing, else near fine. Haley's story takes up four pages. This issue preceded by a day the first episode of the landmark eight-part miniseries.

ROOTS, Doubleday, 1976, first edition, near fine in vg dust-wrapper with some slight wear and tear. SIGNED by the author.

E-283: Doubleday. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1976. First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday, New York. 1976. 588 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Alex Haley on the FFEP. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ. Bound in 1/4 black and bronze paper covered boards gilt lettered at the spine. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. When Roots was first published forty years ago, the book electrified the nation: it received a Pulitzer Prize and was a #1 New York Times bestseller for 22 weeks. The celebrated miniseries that followed a year later was a coast-to-coast event-over 130 million Americans watched some or all of the broadcast. In the four decades since then, the story of the young African slave Kunta Kinte and his descendants has lost none of its power to enthrall and provoke. EB; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 688 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Doubleday, 1976. Hardcover. F. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 688 pages; Signed by Author. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 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… Read More