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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.)
MCKAY, CLAUDE.
Banana Bottom.
317 pages. Thick 8vo, original decorative
cloth in an Aaron Douglas dust jacket
with several chips to the front panel and
spine extremities.
New York: Harpers, 1933
[600/900]
FIRST EDITION OF MCKAY
’
S NOVEL OF
JAMAICA
.
Bita is madly in love with Crazy
Bow, a wild creature who seduces her at twelve.
She is then adopted by white missionaries and
sent to England to study. When she returns to
the island, “she marries her father’s drayman
and settles down to a quiet life.” Whiteman,
page 35.
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.)
MORRISON, TONI.
The Bluest Eye.
164 pages. 8vo, original cloth-backed
boards; first issue dust jacket,
SIGNED BY
THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE
-
PAGE
.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1970
[5,000/7,500]
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR
’
S ELUSIVE
FIRST NOVEL
.
AN IMMACULATE COPY IN AN
IMMACULATE DUST JACKET
;
PROBABLY NEVER
READ
.
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