Search Results: women of brewster place by naylor

NY: Viking. (1982). Her first book, a novel constructed in seven stories. Winner of the American Book Award for best first novel of the year, and later the basis for a television miniseries. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine.

New York: Viking, 1982. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK NEAR FINE/JACKET VERY GOOD+. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special, decorative bookplate. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY IN A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET. AUTHOR'S FIRST ACCLAIMED NOVEL. FIRST PRINTING. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. NOT A REMAINDER. 189 pages. HANDSOME COPY.

New York: The Viking Press, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author: "To Ken Hubner - This was my first 'baby' and I guess I'll always love 'her' best. Gloria Naylor." A nice, tight copy of the author's first book.

NY: Viking, 1982. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 192. Author's signature on title. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A fine copy in dj. Her first book, a novel made from seven stories. Winner of the American Book Award for best first novel of the year, and later the basis for a television miniseries.

New York: The Viking Press, 1982. First edition of Naylor's National Book Award-winning debut novel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jeanne Gloria Naylor." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design and drawing by George Sanders a.k.a. Sando. With an original African-Caribbean Bookstore flyer advertising the book signing event during which this copy was inscribed on Thursday, March 7, 1985 laid in. Brewster Place: a blind alley feeding into a dead end, a street few would move to by choice. Through the fractured perspectives of seven women who occupy this common ground, this remarkable work of fiction evokes intimately and powerfully the world of black women in 1980s urban America. "Hard-edged, soft-pleased," these women experience, fight against - and sometimes transcend - a world where compassionate energy is at war with implacable desolation. Naylor's debut novel, the work won the National Book Award and was was adapted as the 1989 miniseries… Read More

Viking Press, 1982 First edition, first printing; edgewear, chipping, rubbing and creasing to dust jacket with $13.95 price intact; soiling to page edges; o/w VG/VG; signed by author on bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.