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Divine Days [Signed with inscription to Michael Eric and Michelle Dyson]
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1993. Very Good / Very Good. Item #46440
ISBN: 0039303612
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1993. Stated First Norton Edition with full numberline. Signed by Forrest on title page with inscription, "With great respect to Marcia + Michael Eric, the dynamic Dysons. Love, Leon. 9/19/94." Thick octavo; illustrated dust jacket with $32.00 price intact; pale green and gray boards stamped in blue; 1135pp. Dust jacket and boards worn along edges with mild dampstaining and adjacent discoloration; binding sound; smudging and spotting to edges of text block and endpapers, else unmarked.
Overall a Very Good copy of Forrest's opus, called "the War and Peace of African-American literature" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The true first edition was published a year earlier by Another Chicago Press, but most copies were destroyed in a warehouse fire. Scarce signed.
Price: $650.00