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A nice signed first edition of one of the great American novels. Morrison won the Nobel Prize for literature for her body of work and the Pulitzer Prize for this novel, which was the basis for a film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. [x], 275, [3] pages. First edition (stated; first printing with no indication of later printings). The white cloth-covered boards are a bit grubby along the top of the front panel, else a fine copy in a near fine to fine dust jacket. Signed by Toni Morrison on the title page. NB: The $18.95 price on the flap is not a point of issue. All copies of the first printing had that jacket. Copies without that price have been messed with by substituting a book club or a later printing jacket. Generally, I don't think it's a good idea to buy books that have been doctored and I definitely think it's bad practice to do business with booksellers who describe such items as anything but the Frankenbooks that they are (with parts of one book attached to parts of another).

Beloved is a novel by Toni Morrison published in 1987. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 and is set after the American Civil War. It tells the story of a family of former slaves whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit.