Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of A Mercy by Toni Morrison in a new archival wrap. First Edition stated, 2008 Knopf. First Printing without subsequent printing.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on the spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is also in Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. 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 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner in Catholic Maryland. This is Florens, who can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Rejected by her mother, Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master’s house, and later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives.
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