The Bluest Eye A Novel

by Morrison, Toni

$2,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

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 House. Gottlieb later edited all but one of Morrison s novels. Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Photos upon request. International shipping billed at cost.; 8vo 8 - 9 tall; 164 pages .

• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
• Year: 1970
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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