TONI MORRISON: JAZZ, A NOVEL/AFRICAN - AMERICAN/RARE 1992 1st EDITION, SIGNED
Item History & Price
JAZZ. BY TONI MORRISON. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author. Rare.
A handsome signed First Edition book. Signed by the author on the half title page. Stated First Edition on the copyright page. This book is solid and complete and in excellent condition.
Published over 25 years ago, signed FIrst Edition books can sell for well over $100.
From the Publisher: "In the afterglow of a clean triumph--her widely celebrated, Pulitzer Pr...ize-winning best-seller, Beloved--Toni Morrison moves to even higher ground. This, her eagerly awaited new novel, Jazz, is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style. It is winter, barely three days into 1926, seven years after Armistice; we are in the scintillating City, around Lenox Avenue, "when all the wars are over and there will never be another one...At last, at last, everything's ahead...Here comes the new. Look out. There goes the sad stuff. The bad stuff. The things-nobody-could-help stuff." But amid the euphoric decisiveness, a tragedy ensues among people who had train-danced into the City, from points south and west, in search of promise. Joe Trace--in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband--shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas ("Everything was like a picture show to her"). At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, herself a hairdresser--who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, and who talks mostly to birds--tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. In a dazzling act of jazz-like improvisation, moving seamlessly in and out of past, present, and future, a mysterious voice--whose identity is a matter of each reader's imagination--weaves this brilliant fiction, at the same time showing how its blues are informed by the brutal exigencies of slavery. Richly combining history, legend, reminiscence, this voice captures as never before the ineffable mood, the complex humanity, of black urban life at a moment in our century we assumed we understood. Jazz is an unprecedented and astonishing invention, a landmark on the American literary landscape--a novel unforgettable and for all time..."
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Octavo-Sized Hardcover book in Dust Jacket; 229 pages. Near Fine condition: no writing or markings in the text; no torn or missing pages; no ownership markings. Signed on half title page. Original publisher's hardcover binding, with almost no wear. Very Good condition dust jacket with light wear, price-clipped. A nice copy of this rare book.
Please look through my other auction listings- I have listed many scarce and unusual books this week on ebay. Please bid on more than one book, because I will be happy to reduce shipping costs for multiple purchases; media mail postage is $5 for this listing, and $1 for each additional book that you win from me. International bids welcomed, international airmail postage $35; Canadian airmail postage $25.
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A handsome signed First Edition book. Signed by the author on the half title page. Stated First Edition on the copyright page. This book is solid and complete and in excellent condition.
Published over 25 years ago, signed FIrst Edition books can sell for well over $100.
From the Publisher: "In the afterglow of a clean triumph--her widely celebrated, Pulitzer Pr...ize-winning best-seller, Beloved--Toni Morrison moves to even higher ground. This, her eagerly awaited new novel, Jazz, is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style. It is winter, barely three days into 1926, seven years after Armistice; we are in the scintillating City, around Lenox Avenue, "when all the wars are over and there will never be another one...At last, at last, everything's ahead...Here comes the new. Look out. There goes the sad stuff. The bad stuff. The things-nobody-could-help stuff." But amid the euphoric decisiveness, a tragedy ensues among people who had train-danced into the City, from points south and west, in search of promise. Joe Trace--in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband--shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas ("Everything was like a picture show to her"). At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, herself a hairdresser--who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, and who talks mostly to birds--tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. In a dazzling act of jazz-like improvisation, moving seamlessly in and out of past, present, and future, a mysterious voice--whose identity is a matter of each reader's imagination--weaves this brilliant fiction, at the same time showing how its blues are informed by the brutal exigencies of slavery. Richly combining history, legend, reminiscence, this voice captures as never before the ineffable mood, the complex humanity, of black urban life at a moment in our century we assumed we understood. Jazz is an unprecedented and astonishing invention, a landmark on the American literary landscape--a novel unforgettable and for all time..."
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Octavo-Sized Hardcover book in Dust Jacket; 229 pages. Near Fine condition: no writing or markings in the text; no torn or missing pages; no ownership markings. Signed on half title page. Original publisher's hardcover binding, with almost no wear. Very Good condition dust jacket with light wear, price-clipped. A nice copy of this rare book.
Please look through my other auction listings- I have listed many scarce and unusual books this week on ebay. Please bid on more than one book, because I will be happy to reduce shipping costs for multiple purchases; media mail postage is $5 for this listing, and $1 for each additional book that you win from me. International bids welcomed, international airmail postage $35; Canadian airmail postage $25.
hall
