Roots by Alex Haley 1976 First Edition Hardcover Doubleday Book w/ Dust Jacket

Roots by Alex Haley 1976 First Edition Hardcover Doubleday Book w/ Dust Jacket

Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
Hardcover First Edition – Published 1976 by Doubleday & Company

This is an original first edition of Alex Haley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Roots, a landmark novel tracing generations of an African American family back to their origins in Africa. The book became an international phenomenon and one of the most important literary works of the 20th century.

Details:

• Author: Alex Haley

• Title: Roots: The Saga of an American Family

• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.

• Year: 1976

• ISBN: 0-385-03787-2

• Binding: Hardcover, brown boards with black spine

• Edition: First Edition (stated)

• Includes original dust jacket (jacket present but torn and detached, see photos)

• Copyright page indicates: “Copyright © 1976 by Alex Haley – First Edition”

Condition:

• Book is in good vintage condition overall.

• Some shelf wear and corner rubbing on cover.

• Tight binding, clean pages with no highlighting or underlining.

• Previous gift inscription written on inside page (see photo).

• Dust jacket is in fair condition with significant tears and separation but included for authenticity.

A must-have collectible for readers, historians, and collectors of African American literature or first edition classics.

S/H is $7 within the U.S.