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Cover is in good condition save for some slight corner bumping, edge wear, and significant rubbing throughout. DJ suffers extensive rubbing to front and back covers with minimal edge wear. Text is clean and tight in binding. No ownership or other markings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall

DJ has sunned spine.

First Edition, First Printing. Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Octavo. Green cloth boards stamped in gold with red endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. Light fading to spine. 129 pages. ISBN: 0822935899. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

First edition. A short red line on the front fly, else fine in fine dustwrapper.

This is "Moustapha's Eclipse" , a book of short stories by black author Reginald McKnight. The book won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for 1988. Published by the University of Pittsburgh, this is a signed First Edition with the dated signature of Mcknight on the title page. It is previously owned, and has a neatly inked gift inscription on the front free end-paper. ****************************************************** The stories in the book are : Mali is Very Dangerous / First I Looked at the Purse / Peaches / Who Big Bob? / Uncle Moustapha's Eclipse / Gettin to Be Like the Studs / The Voice / The Honey Boys / How I Met Idi at the Bassi Dakaru Restaurant / Rebirth ********************************************* Said Margaret Atwood about McKnights work : " These stories display an enviable verbal panache, a wacky inventiveness, and, from time to time, a directness and honesty that makes you squirm. The writer's focus is on Black experience, in both America and Africa, but he brings to it his own quirkiness, his own distinctive voice. He is a writer very much worth watching." ***************************************** TITLE : Moustapha's Eclipse / AUTHOR : Reginald McKnight / IMPRINT : University of Pittsburgh / PLACE : Pittsburgh, PA / DATE : (1988) / EDITION : First Edition / STATUS : OP / SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Dated signature of the author on title page. Winner of the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Award / DETAILS : Trade hardcover; 129 pages plus one page of previous Drue Heinz Award recipient; approx. 6" x 9"; dark turquoise-green, cloth covered binding with gilt lettering on spine and front board; red end-papers; decorated dust-jacket has a photograph of McKnight on the rear panel. ************************************* CONDITION : BOOK: VERY GOOD JACKET : VERY GOOD This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive. The book has a dated signature by McKnight, and a neatly penned gift inscription by an unknown person, and the following particulars noted: EXTERIOR : Clean and bright with near-negligible signs of handling; text-block edges are clean. / BINDING : Solid / INTERIOR : Neat and brief penned gift inscription on front free end-paper; authors dated signature on title page, else all is clean and presentable with no other marking. / DUST-JACKET : Fading to spine, else clean and attractive with near-negligible signs of wear.

Bleeding of green cloth onto back of back panel of jacket.

First edition. Owner name, else fine in a fine dustwrapper.

Pittsburgh. 1988. University Of Pittsburgh Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket W/A Small Tear On The Top Front Of The Dustjacket. 0822935899. 131 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Gary Gore. keywords: Literature America Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Winner of the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Margaret Atwood. Reginald McKnight's MOUSTAPHA'S ECLIPSE was chosen by Margaret Atwood as the winner of the eighth Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction. His collection of ten short stories was selected from over 300 manuscripts submitted by published writers to the contest. The stories of MOUSTAPHA'S ECLIPSE are spoken in a true host of voices, savvy guides to the worlds of West Africa and black America, through the minefields of adolescence, racism, found and failed beliefs. Idi, a Senegalese English translator, tells a number of these tales, transposing African myths into a language his friend, a visiting black American anthropologist, understands enough to mistrust. There is the story of the 'snaggletoothed, illiterate' peddler Moustapha Diole, who would take a knife to his own body to sell a protective charm; and of the prosperous and spiritual peanut farmer of the title story who would witness an eclipse at the price of blindness. Woven among the African voices are native American ones. In 'First I Look at the Purse,' Walter, a super-smooth high school hood, falls, in spite of himself, for a Rosicrucian - turning him on to 'auras and magnetism,' and leading him to out-of-body experiences. 'Peaches' explores a black woman's first romance, a relationship with a white student that forces her to confront racism and love in the same moments, in the same man. inventory #23664 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket W/A Small Tear On The Top Front Of The Dustjacket

Book and dj are fine. Signed and dated by the Poet on the title page and Inscribed to Jim Brady on the dedication page by the Poet.