Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first paperback edition, early printing copy of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, protected in a new archival wrap. First Vintage International Edition. stated May 2007. Eighth printing with a partial number line, 10 9 8.
The exterior of this paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean, illustrated covers with no creases, clean page blocks, mild surface wear, strong title on a concave spine, a tight binding with one mild spine crack, strong spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
Don’t miss your chance to own this important work of fiction. Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
