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Alex Haley Original Annotated Roots Manuscript.

Alex Haley Original Annotated Roots Manuscript.

by Haley, Alex

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Published in October 1976 amid significant advance expectations, Roots was immediately successful, garnering a slew of positive reviews and debuting at #5 of The New York Times Best Seller list. By mid-November, it had risen to the #1 spot on the list. The television adaptation of the book aired in January 1977 and within seven months of its release, Roots had sold over 1.5 million copies. In total, Roots spent 22 weeks at the #1 spot on The Times' list, including each of the first 18 weeks of 1977. Ultimately, it was on the list for a total 46 weeks. Together, the success of the novel and its 1977 television adaptation, sparked an explosion of interest in the fields of genealogy and researching family histories. Haley earned a Pulitzer Prize special award in 1977 for Roots. The television miniseries garnered many awards, including nine Emmys and a Peabody. It was remade again in 2016 starring Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker, Anna Paquin, Laurence Fishburne and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
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Alex Haley Original Annotated Roots Manuscript and Photograph.

Alex Haley Original Annotated Roots Manuscript and Photograph.

by Haley, Alex

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Published in October 1976 amid significant advance expectations, Roots was immediately successful, garnering a slew of positive reviews and debuting at #5 of The New York Times Best Seller list. By mid-November, it had risen to the #1 spot on the list. The television adaptation of the book aired in January 1977 and within seven months of its release, Roots had sold over 1.5 million copies. In total, Roots spent 22 weeks at the #1 spot on The Times' list, including each of the first 18 weeks of 1977. Ultimately, it was on the list for a total 46 weeks. Together, the success of the novel and its 1977 television adaptation, sparked an explosion of interest in the fields of genealogy and researching family histories. Haley earned a Pulitzer Prize special award in 1977 for Roots. The television miniseries garnered many awards, including nine Emmys and a Peabody. It was remade again in 2016 starring Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker, Anna Paquin, Laurence Fishburne and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
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Roots

Roots

by HALEY, ALEX

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London: Hutchinson, 1977. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. First English edition. Unprinted white wrappers. Light spotting on the wrappers else fine. Advance proof copy of the first English edition. Basis for the 1977 miniseries starring John Amos, Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton, and Louis Gossett Jr.
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family

by HALEY, Alex

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Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Gift inscription on front pastedown, very faint stain at bottom of rear board, very good or better in good dust jacket with a stain on the spine and rear panel and a split at the bottom of the flap folds. Signed by Haley on the front fly.
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ROOTS SIGNED

ROOTS SIGNED

by Alex Haley

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New York: Doubleday. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good- dust jacket. Rubbing, few open tears along panel edges and spine crown/heel. ; Personalized by author on most of FEP. ; Signed by Author .
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Roots

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. First edition limited to 500 signed and numbered copies (this, no. 123); 8vo, pp. [2], viii, 587, [1]; a fine copy of this Pulitzer Prize winner in publisher's full brown leather, gilt-stamped spine, publisher's slipcase.
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Roots

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Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Contemporary signed presentation copy, and it's a good association, inscribed in ink, "September 1976. Dinah Shore, lovely, gracious lady - from our family to your family! Sincerely, Alex Haley." Some storage unit mustiness, else near fine in a very good dustjacket. This is Haley's quest for his genealogical history, starting in 1750 (contrast today when "roots" means the Church of the Magic Moonbeam tracing its origins all the way back to 2004). And Roots was a 'just what it needed' contribution to America's bicentennial, historically enlightening and emotionally rewarding. It won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize and, in 1977, it became the prototype television documentary miniseries, winning 9 Emmys.
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ROOTS. Inscribed

ROOTS. Inscribed

by Haley, Alex

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New York: Doubleday & Company, 1976. Early Printing. Hardcover. Early Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Author. ROOTS. THE SAGA OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY. Presentation Copy. Early Trade Edition with a very warm full page presentation inscribed by Haley on the ffe. dated 11 / 11 / 76: "Paul Jones. Kunta's family wishes the very warm best to you and your family! - Alex Haley". 8vo. 587 pp. A near fine copy in original 1/4 black and bronze cloth covered boards gilt lettered at the spine in a very good dustwrapper with a closed tear at the bottom of the rear panel. Acknowledged more as a work of the imagination today rather than strict scholarship, Roots was the publishing sensation of the 1970's & remains the most important 20th century literary event in black literature. It was adapted into the hugely popular, 12-hour television miniseries, ROOTS, in 1977 [The first ever TV miniseries], & a 14-hour sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, in 1979. Haley earned a Pulitzer Prize special award in 1977 for Roots &… Read More
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Roots

by Alex Haley

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ROOTS

by Haley, Alex

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1976. First state dust jacket. Near fine.. Inscribed first edition of the famed epic of the African diaspora, warmly presented by Haley in the year of publication. ROOTS is a saga of dislocation and strength in the face of brutality, reckoning with the complexities of ancestry in the African diaspora caused by the transatlantic slave trade. It begins in 1750 on the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, tracing the lives of multiple generations up to the birth of Haley himself. Michael Eric Dyson explains what ROOTS represented to the descendants of slaves in the United States: "No longer were we genealogical nomads [...] Haley wrote black folk into the book of American heritage and gave us the confidence to believe that we could find our forebears even as he shared his own" ("Haley's Comet"). The 1977 television adaptation was a major cultural event, with an audience of nearly half the American population (NEW YORK TIMES). A triumph of the archives and an… Read More
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ROOTS.
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ROOTS.

by Haley, Alex.

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New York: Doubleday.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385037872 . First trade edition. INSCRIBED & dated on January 31, 1977 by Alex Haley on a 4" X 5" piece of lined paper neatly laid-in. "Will Sanders - the very warm best to you and your family from the family of Kunta Kinte!" Fine in near fine dust jacket. (1"-inch neatly repaired tear at upper seam of spine on rear panel. Couple small edge nicks in jacket. ) Pulitzer Prize winner & basis for the television mini-series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 587 pages .
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Roots: The Saga of An American Family
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Roots: The Saga of An American Family

by Haley, Alex

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Doubleday, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fair. Large, thick book, black cloth spine, dark gra;y boards, purple background at spine top with very bright gilt lettering, lightly browned at pages' exterior edges. On first front end paper, a note printed by a child presenting book as Christmas gift to her Daddy, a black Vice-President of Merrilll Lynch. Then in black felt-tip pen: "Oct 24, 1984. To Dan and LaRease--Love from Kunta Kinte's family! Alex Haley." Price inside DJ front flap--$12.50, gutter code on final page, R44. DJ beneath mylar, glossy cream spine and front border, front background in shades of orange to title and author's name on front and all of back. DJ has 3.5" tear at bottom front tip up bookfold edge, 2" tear with very slight wear to bottom front edge next to spine, white portions lightly browned overall, microtears and micronicks along spine edges, tiny chip and very slight surface wear to bottom back tip and back edge nearer spine, very… Read More
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ROOTS

ROOTS

by Alex Haley

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New York: Doubleday. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385037872 . Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. ; 9.2 X 5.9 X 1.8 inches; 688 pages .
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ROOTS

ROOTS

by Alex Haley

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New York: Doubleday. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Light rubbing, open tearing along panel edges. Light foxing on top/side text block edge. Creasing and wear to DJ. Stated First Edition. .
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'Roots': The Story Behind the Search [story in] TV Guide
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'Roots': The Story Behind the Search [story in] TV Guide

by HALEY, Alex

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Radnor, Pa: Triangle Publications, 1977. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. Various paginations, ads. Illustrated. Wrappers illustrated by Romare Bearden. Small chip on rear wrap, a bit of rubbing, else near fine. Haley's story takes up four pages. This issue preceded by a day the first episode of the landmark eight-part miniseries.
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by Haley, Alex

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ROOTS, Doubleday, 1976, first edition, near fine in vg dust-wrapper with some slight wear and tear. SIGNED by the author.
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Roots The Saga of an American Family
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Roots The Saga of an American Family

by Haley, Alex

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E-283: Doubleday. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1976. First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday, New York. 1976. 588 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Alex Haley on the FFEP. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ. Bound in 1/4 black and bronze paper covered boards gilt lettered at the spine. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. When Roots was first published forty years ago, the book electrified the nation: it received a Pulitzer Prize and was a #1 New York Times bestseller for 22 weeks. The celebrated miniseries that followed a year later was a coast-to-coast event-over 130 million Americans watched some or all of the broadcast. In the four decades since then, the story of the young African slave Kunta Kinte and his descendants has lost none of its power to enthrall and provoke. EB; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 688 pages; Signed by Author .
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Roots - Inscribed
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Roots - Inscribed

by Alex Haley

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New York: Doubleday. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine book with tight binding likely unread. Housed in a Fine dustjacket, with a small closed tear at the top of the back cover, otherwise without any other obvious defects and minimal wear, a fine collectable copy. First edition, later issue. The book is also signed and inscribed to Elizabeth Taylor Ellis, the grandaughter of J Will Taylor (Member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee 2nd district, serving from March 4th 1919 - Nove 14 1939). The inscription reads, "Oct 9 1988 To Elizabeth Taylor Ellis, granddaughter of J Will Taylor, A Tennessee statesman - Alex Haley". Signature was obtained during a meeting at the Appalachia Museum in Andersonville in 1988. ROOTS is a saga of dislocation and strength in the face of brutality, reckoning with the complexities of ancestry in the African diaspora caused by the transatlantic slave trade. It begins in 1750 on the coast of The Gambia, West… Read More
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ROOTS

ROOTS

by Alex Haley

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New York: Doubleday. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385037872 . Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 1/4 inch open tear at top and bottom of rear panel. Stated First Edition. ; 9.2 X 5.9 X 1.8 inches; 688 pages .
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Roots

by Alex Haley

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Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition (1976.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 587 pages. Laid in author's signature," Alex Haley." The book and dust jackets (there are 2 of them) are in very good condition some toning due to age. The interior is clean and tight. Pictures available upon request. "When Roots was first published.. the book electrified the nation: it received a Pulitzer Prize and was a #1 New York Times bestseller for 22 weeks. The celebrated miniseries that followed a year later was a coast-to-coast event-over 130 million Americans watched some or all of the broadcast...the family ancestry of author Alex Haley [and] a symbolic chronicle of the odyssey of African Americans from the continent of Africa to a land not of their choosing." Tan spine/Dark Brown text. #032690. Signed. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. African American History.
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