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1989 McKnight, Reginald MOUSTAPHA'S ECLIPSE NY: Ecco Press, c1989 129pp 8vo Fine trade softcover copy.

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

PB/pub.1988/Fair condition/129 pages - These stories display an enviable verbal panache, a wacky inventiveness, and, from time to time, a directness and honesty that makes you squirm. Black experience in both Africa and America. [KI123493]

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.

Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Housed in a NF dustwrapper that shows one minor 3/4" closed tear to bottom of front panel. Overall, a tight, clean first edition of this the African-American author's scarce first book. Winner of the Drue Heinz Literary Prize in year of publication.

First edition. Near fine in dust jacket (Edges lightly foxed. ) Author's FIRST book. Stories.

First edition. Near fine in dust jacket (Edges lightly foxed. ) Author's FIRST book. Stories.