Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Love by Toni Morrison in a new archival wrap. First Edition stated, 2003 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, 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 price on the front flap and mild edge wear. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride’s mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that “what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.”
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