BELOVED by Toni hotsell Morrison, 1ST EDITION & PRINTING, Knopf, 1987

VERY hotsell GOOD condition ---- DUST JACKET: Very minor wear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels and flaps. BOARDS: Very good condition. Minor scuff to bottom outside corner, front. BOOK: Very good condition. Minor foxing to textblock page edges, primarily foredge. Pencil markings top right corner FFEP. Slight lean to spine. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. Any questions? Please feel free to ask.


Here on offer is a very nice copy of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Beloved", an historical fiction work inspired by actual events. This copy is a true 1st trade edition, 1st printing of the book published by Alfred Knopf in 1987. The dustjacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve.


" 'Beloved' is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War, it tells the story of a family of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit. Beloved is inspired by an event that actually happened: Margaret Garner, an enslaved person in Kentucky, who escaped and fled to the free state of Ohio in 1856. She was subject to capture in accordance with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850; when U.S. marshals burst into the cabin where Garner and her husband had barricaded themselves, she was attempting to kill her children, and had already killed her two-year-old daughter, to spare them from being returned to slavery.

Morrison had come across an account of Garner titled 'A Visit to the Slave Mother who Killed Her Child' in an 1856 newspaper article published in the American Baptist, and reproduced in The Black Book, a miscellaneous compilation of black history and culture that Morrison edited in 1974.

The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 and was a finalist for the 1987 National Book Award. It was adapted as a 1998 movie of the same name, starring Oprah Winfrey. A survey of writers and literary critics compiled by The New York Times ranked it as the best work of American fiction from 1981 to 2006."

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"PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. This spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.

Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement."


The above text was taken from, respectively, Wikipedia and Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (via Google Books)
[Morrison, Toni. Beloved. United States: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.]


This handsome copy would be a worthy addendum to your 1st editions library.