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First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. Song of Solomon won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 and was cited when Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Writing for the New York Times, Reynolds Price praised Morrison's weaving of "fantasy, fable, song and allegory" to communicate "painfully discovered and powerfully held convictions about the possibility of transcendence within human life, on the time-scale of a single life" (Price). Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in blind, publisher's device on rear cover in blind, top edge pink, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Foot of spine lightly bumped, a touch of foxing at edges; spine panel of jacket slightly sunned, edges lightly creased, one or two nicks, a few marks on front fold, unclipped: a fine copy in near-fine jacket. Reynolds Price, The New York Times, 11 September 1977.

Song of Solomon is a 1977 novel by Toni Morrison. The book was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. It follows the life of an African-American man called Macon 'Milkman' Dead III, as he grows from an odd, self-indulgent youth into a powerful and understanding man.