Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Jazz by Toni Morrison in a new archival wrap. First Trade Edition stated, 1992 Knopf. First Printing with no subsequent printing.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on the convex spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and two lightly bumped corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the previous owner’s two-line gift inscription on the first first free end paper and no other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with the price on the front flap and mild edge wear. Looks great in a new archival wrap.
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe? s wife, Violet, attacks the girl? s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of black urban life.
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