[1st ed] Tar Baby (inscribed)
First printing of the stated first trade edition of Nobel-prize winner Toni Morrison’s fourth novel. Published in 1981 by Alfred A. Knopf. 8vo, hardcover with unclipped pictorial dust jacket, cream cloth lettered in gilt. Boldly inscribed on the FFE to Sybil Harriet Landau, New York City lawyer and educator involved in civil rights, feminist, and lesbian causes and lecturer on rape, sexuality and the law. Light chipping and rubbing to the dust jacket but an overall lovely copy enhanced by the inscription. From the collection of Sybil Landau.
First printing of the stated first trade edition of Nobel-prize winner Toni Morrison’s fourth novel. Published in 1981 by Alfred A. Knopf. 8vo, hardcover with unclipped pictorial dust jacket, cream cloth lettered in gilt. Boldly inscribed on the FFE to Sybil Harriet Landau, New York City lawyer and educator involved in civil rights, feminist, and lesbian causes and lecturer on rape, sexuality and the law. Light chipping and rubbing to the dust jacket but an overall lovely copy enhanced by the inscription. From the collection of Sybil Landau.
First printing of the stated first trade edition of Nobel-prize winner Toni Morrison’s fourth novel. Published in 1981 by Alfred A. Knopf. 8vo, hardcover with unclipped pictorial dust jacket, cream cloth lettered in gilt. Boldly inscribed on the FFE to Sybil Harriet Landau, New York City lawyer and educator involved in civil rights, feminist, and lesbian causes and lecturer on rape, sexuality and the law. Light chipping and rubbing to the dust jacket but an overall lovely copy enhanced by the inscription. From the collection of Sybil Landau.
