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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. 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.

New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1970. 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… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,, 1970. The debut of the "towering novelist of the Black experience" First edition, first printing, of the author's influential first novel, which "cut 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. Morrison wrote the novel "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). Octavo. Original blue quarter cloth, spine lettered in silver, grey paper-covered sides. With dust jacket. Spine ends lightly bumped and sunned, occasional ink underlinings to contents; jacket… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition stated, first printing. A review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Bound in publisher's original paper boards over blue cloth spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with slight roll to the spine, light toning to edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning and light edge wear with a short closed tear at the top edge of the front panel, a thin scratch to the rear panel, browning to the blindside and flaps. A review copy of the author's scarce first novel.

signed second printing, 1971. signed by toni morrison on front free endpaper. comes with very rare photographs of the author from the signing. new york: holt, rinehart, winston. 164 pages. 5.75 x 8.5". hardcover. bound in paper and cloth-covered boards. book condition: mild edge wear and to boards and small white mark on front joint. slight creasing and tearing to head edge of pages 21-30. jacket condition: 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. unclipped ($5.95). good+.

THE BLUEST EYE, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970, first edition, head of spine gently bumped, else fine in just about fine dust-wrapper. The Nobel laureate's first book.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1979. First English Edition, First Impression. Cloth. Fine/fine. Signed first English edition of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, in fine condition.. Octavo, 164pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, a fine example. In the publisher's exceptional dust jacket, £4.95 retail price on front flap. Signed by the author in black ink on the title page. A beautiful, scarce example of the author's first published book. The true first edition of the Bluest Eye was published in the United States in 1970 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Toni Morrison (1931-2019) was an influential American novelist, essayist, editor, and professor, celebrated for her profound exploration of the African American experience. With a career spanning several decades, Morrison authored acclaimed works such as "Beloved," "Sula," and "Song of Solomon," earning her numerous prestigious awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel… Read More

Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Third Printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Second issue DJ. Unclipped DJ in archival cover. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1970.

Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. 1970. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 0030850746 . A clean Ex-library copy with no stickers or card sleeve, a single stamp to the title page. Rubbing and toning overall, binding shaken, a lean, and some shelf wear. The jacket with light rubbing and toning, minor wear to the edges, and wrapped in mylar and pasted to the book via the flaps. Not price clipped. Jacket price of $5.95. The Bluest Eye was Morrison's first novel and was published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston in 1970, when she was aged 39. It was favorably reviewed in The New York Times by John Leonard, who praised Morrison's writing style. The novel did not sell well at first, but the City University of New York put The Bluest Eye on its reading list for its new Black studies department, as did other colleges, which boosted sales. The book also brought Morrison to the attention of the acclaimed editor Robert Gottlieb at Knopf, an imprint of the publisher Random… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. First British Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth-affect paper-covered boards with titles printed in gilt on the spine. Near Fine with slight lean to the binding, light wear to spine ends, former owner name to front free endpaper and pages lightly tanned. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light toning and light edge wear, foxing to the flaps and blindside.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1979. . First UK edition, 8vo., pp.(iii),164, blue hardcover, gilt; slight marking/foxing to fore-edges, lower corner of rear board lightly bruised, an otherwise fresh and near-fine copy, in very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has light creasing to laminate coating where price label has been removed.

Knopf, 1993. Hard cover wit. Used: Good. 5x0x7. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Contemporary Fiction; good hardcover with dustjacket; first edition; deckled; some slight foxing top edge dustjacket; dustjacket tips bumped; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

Washington Square Press, 1972-01-01. 1st. Paperback. Good. Paperback, some cover corner and edge wear, Original Price sticker on cover, Owner's Name inside, Pages are otherwise clean, tight and flat. Item Shrink-wrapped for additional protection

Knopf, 2000. First edition, first printing. Oprah's Book Club. Fine and bright in like dust jacket. Reprint edition of the Nobel Prize winning author. Very first novel.

New York, New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1972. First Mass Market Paperback Edition 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. Good+. Written early in Morrison's career, this is a "haunting and frightening story...so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry,'' about an 11-year-old Black girl made pregnant by a rape--committed by her own father. Orig. published in hardcover in 1970, this is the First Mass Market Paperback Edition, a 9th printing, from 1972. Condition is Good+: completely clean inside with the front epigram circled in pen; no writing or marking in text. Pages moderately tanned, commensurate with age. Binding secure, with a slight rightward lean, Moderate corner curling & light exterior soil; nicely protected in new clear mylar collector bag Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders, weekends & holidays ship… Read More

New York, NY: Plume. Good. 1994. 1st Edition (Unstated); Twenty-First Printing. Paperback. 216 pages; Rubbing (shelf wear) to covers. Yellowing to pages. Stains to exterior edge of pages, minor. Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. .

First Plume paperback edition, 21st printing, in Good+ condition. Clean, unmarked pages; tight binding. Minor edge and corner wear from storage, and a few pages with very small corner creases. Fine overall reading condition.Good