Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First editions of the Nobel Prize-winning author's Beloved trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth. Boldly signed by Toni Morrison in each volume. Each are fine in a fine dust jackets. Toni Morrison’s “Beloved trilogy,” as she herself called it (The Paris Review, 1993). Beloved is set in post-Civil War Ohio, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel concerns a runaway slave and her daughter, whose lives are disrupted by a former slave, a spirit and a woman named Beloved. "A masterwork. . . . I can’t imagine American literature without it" (John Leonard, Los Angeles Times). It was the basis for the movie Beloved, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, and Thandie Newton.

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.