Isbn: 9780929968247 - divine days: a novel (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. dj. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 1138 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with white lettering. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "32.50." Bumping to head and tail of spine. Bumping to edges of dust jacket. Rubbing to dust jacket. Mild cocking to spine. Mild soiling to text block. Shelved in Case 6. 1415445. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. …

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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. 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. Cover art by sculptor Richard Hunt (illustrator).…