A square solid tight clean carefully read copy. The jacket has some light rubbing wear, minor edgewear, a short closed tear. Picked by Margaret Atwood for the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
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
Fine 8vo-over 7þ"-9þ" tall. pp.129 "An enviable verbal panache, a wacky inventiveness and from time to time a directness and honesty that makes you skirm" this is what you will find in these stories. clean tight copy.
Mali is very dangerous--First I look 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.
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
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.
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.
129p., very good first edition in cloth boards and gilt, unclipped dj with faded spine. Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner selected by Margaret Atwood. African American author's first book.
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