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Book. Octavo, 337 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine yellow with red and black lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$8.95." Creasing and chipping along edges, with some scuffing and soiling to covers. Some tearing to cloth on head of spine. Top edge of textblock dyed red, with some signs of scuffing. Inscribed by Toni Morrison on front free endpaper reading, "A delight meeting you Angie. Warm best wishes from Toni / 12.55.1977" Small stain above inscription. DL consignment. Shelved Case 7. 1392668. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: Knopf, 1977. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. 8vo, black cloth, d.w. New York: Knopf,. 1977. First Edition. Fine in near fine dust wrapper The spine of the price-intact yellow dust wrapper is slightly faded and very slightly chipped at the top edge. The title page is signed " Best wishes/ Toni Morrison."

Knopf, 1977. 1. Very Good. Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, a novel of large beauty and power, creates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world we enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr. (known as Milkman), son of the richest black family in a mid-western town; the day on which the lonely insurance man, Robert Smith, poised in blue silk wings, attempts to fly from a steeple of the hospital, a black Icarus looking homeward... We see Milkman growing up in his father's money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother, beginning to move outward--through his profound love and combat with his friend Guitar...through Guitar's mad and loving commitment to the secret avengers called the Seven Days...through Milkman's exotic, imprisoning affair with his love-blind cousin, Hagar...and through his unconscious apprenticeship to his mystical Aunt Pilate, who saved his life before he was born. And we follow him as he strikes out alone; moving first toward adventure and then--as the unspoken truth about his family and his own buried heritage announces itself--toward an adventurous and crucial embrace of life. This is a novel that expresses, with passion, tenderness, and a magnificence of language, the mysterious primal essence of family bond and conflict, the feelings and experience of all people wanting, and striving, to be alive. Inscribed, signedHardcoverBox 3