Anbieter: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1992. First Edition. Thick octavo (23.5cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 1138pp. Light edge wear, brief fingersoil and foxing to textblock edges, spine a bit cocked, else a Very Good and sound example. Signed by the author on title page. Leon Forrest's magnum opus, lauded as "the War and Peace of African-American literature" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Most of the copies from this first edition were destroyed in a warehouse fire. Norton subsequently came out with a reissue the following year. Artikel-Nr. 47488
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Anbieter: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. Cover art by sculptor Richard Hunt (illustrator). First edition. Thick 8vo, 1138pp., gray cloth. Laid in, archivally, is Forrest's obituary. This Pulitzer-nominated novel had a first printing of only 1500 copies. On Christmas Day, 1992, an electrical fire in the publisher's office damaged all the remaining copies, of which about ten smoke-damaged copies were salvaged. Forrest was an English Professor at Northwestern University. He inscribed this copy, "Love to "Connie [Reuveni] / good luck with your bookstore / Best Wishes / Leon Forrest." Connie owned the Booknook Parnassus used bookstore in Evanston, so this is not one of the smoke-damaged copies. Critic John Cawelti called this, "The ULYSSES of Chicago's South Side." It covers a week in February, 1966. in the life of Joubert Jones, and "as a way of re-creating the spirit of those times, . Forget the other hype. This is a legitimately rare modern first edition ! Blurbed by 2 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature ( Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison). Cover art by sculptor Richard Hunt. NOTE: the new 2023 edition incorporates hundreds of editorial changes Forrest wanted included here, but wer not. Artikel-Nr. DEMO015147I
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