SULA - JOHN A. WILLIAMS'S COPY
$1,750 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. The Nobel Prize-winning author's second novel, set in a fictional Ohio town and following the lives of two young Black girls and the bonds they shared from girlhood through adulthood. While Williams and Morrison were contemporaries, Williams was her senior by several years. By the time her first novel, The Bluest Eye, came out in 1970, Williams already had five published novels beneath his belt, including The Angry Ones (1960), Night Song (1961), and The Man Who Cried I Am (1967). He was supportive of Morrison from the beginning of her literary career, calling her debut novel "The freshest, most precise language I've run across in years...Toni Morrison is a wizard" a blurb which appears on the rear panel of Sula. Their correspondence over several decades is held with Williams's papers at the University of Rochester, and Morrison would acknowledge his support in an article for Rutgers Magazine just after winning the Pulitzer Prize ("Story of a Prize," 9/1/88). A distinguished copy, connecting two prominent African American literary figures. Blockson 6510. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; lime green topstain; dustjacket; [xii],[3],4-174,[6]pp. From the library of African American author and journalist John A. Williams (1925-2013), with a photographic postcard laid in, featuring a life-size sculpture of his head on recto, and signed by him on verso, beneath text re
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Year: 1974
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: unknown
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