The Bluest Eye

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Sale 395: Fine Literature (#395) 01/15/2009 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 01/15/2009 1:00 PM PST

Lot #211The Bluest Eye

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$1,500

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

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Sale 395: Fine Literature (#395) 01/15/2009 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 01/15/2009 1:00 PM PST

Description

Title:

The Bluest Eye

Author:

Morrison, Toni

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Holt, Rinehart & Winston

Date Published:

[1970]

Description:

Cloth-backed boards, dust jacket, custom cloth slipcase. First Edition.

Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Fine copy of the Nobel prize-winning author's rare first novel. The Bluest Eye has been banned from public circulation in some states. An important book, and one of the most difficult books of the 1970's in any genre to find in nice condition.

Condition:

Jacket near fine; soiled edges of some rear pages; else near fine volume.

Item#:

197729

Headline:

Toni Morrison's Bluest Eye 1st in dj w/sgn bkplt
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