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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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

Softcover. First softcover edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page, and SIGNED again, with date and inscription, on the dedication page ("Bored Loaf, '95") . Illustrated covers are clean and sharp, slight uplift to corners. Book is firm in binding, crisp interior. In Fine + condition. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 129 pages; Signed by Author

DJ has sunned spine.

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

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

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 recipients; 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.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Very Good+. First Edition in clean unchipped dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Red endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 129 pages. Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for 1988. Dust jacket is clean, unchipped, no wear, some fading to spine background; nice photo of author on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

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: African American Literature America. DESCRIPTION - 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