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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.

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.

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.

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

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. 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… Read More

Signed First Edition.

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.

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

Garden City: Doubleday, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo, 587pp. A crisp, clean, very good copy, with some isolated foxing to the top edge, some ink notations on the rear free endpaper (only), otherwise a nice example. In a very good dust jacket, with some shallow chips at the spine ends. SIGNED by Haley on the front free endpaper.

Doubleday & Company,Inc, 1976. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket.$12.50 On Flap. Stated First Edition Signed By Haley On First Blank. Without Wear. Beautiful Fresh Copy..

ROOTS, Doubleday, 1976, first edition, near fine in vg dust-wrapper with some slight wear and tear. SIGNED by the author.

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 .

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

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.

Doubleday, 1976 Edge wear, closed tears, discoloration, creasing and a small chip to front spine fold of dust jacket with $12.50 price intact; previous owner's name on front paste down; o/w VG+/VG; signed by Alex Haley on a book plate that is attached to front free end paper; pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Later printing. Light edgewear to hardcover. Light tanning to top of text block. Unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed by the author and dated October 29, 1988 on the front free endpaper.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good in a very good dust jacket. SIGNED with an elaborate signature by Levar Burton, star of the TV series based on the book. Also included is a Burton Reading Rainbow bookmark. First Edition stated on the copyright page. Book had minor foxing on page ends; and very slight shelf wear. Dust jacket has original price of $12.50 printed on the front flap. Light rubbing/soiling; chipping at the corners and spine ends. Very good.

SIGNED
FINE/FINE
1976
HARDCOVER WITH PRICED DUST JACKET
"ROOTS"
BY ALEX HALEY
DOUBLEDAY
Fine/Fine, Unread, First Edition, Later Printing, Alex Haley, "Roots" Hardcover with Priced Dust Jacket. It is signed and Dated to someone by Alex Haley on the first free endpaper. Pages are clean. Page block is immaculate. Square, solid binding.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 6x2x8. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author with inscription, "11/1/76 For George--my very best wishes!" Multiple tears and chips to jacket edges which have been mended with tape. 1976 Hard Cover. viii, 587 pp. "Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, transported to North America; following his life and the lives of his descendants in the United States down to Haley. The release of the novel, combined with its hugely popular television adaptation, Roots (1977), led to a cultural sensation in the United States. The novel spent forty-six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List, including twenty-two weeks at number one. The last seven chapters of the novel were later adapted in the form of a second miniseries, Roots: The Next… Read More

Doubleday, September 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Square and tight signed first edition. toning. This is a nice book with no writing or highlighting. We are real people in a real bookstore, contact us with any questions (preferrably about books).