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Boston: Little, Brown, 1977. First Edition. 8vo, pp. ix, 241. Paper over boards. VG in dj. First African-American to win the Pulitzer prize for fiction.

Atlantic-Little Brown, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Fine Copy In Like Price Clipped Jacket First Edition Stated Beautiful Copy of a Difficult Book.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. ix, 241 p. 22 cm. Green cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Pultizer Prize label on front cover. Front flap price-clipped. Some offsetting to endpapers. Cracked at p. 239. Twelve stories about black Americans that explore relations between blacks and whites in the 1960s and 1970s, soon after the rigid social order of the past had broken down. The volume won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1978.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1977), 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [8], ix, [3], 3-241, [1] pp. Green paper-covered boards quarter bound in pale green paper with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $8.95 on front flap of jacket. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. McPherson was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and Elbow Room was his final collection of short stories. A nice copy of one of the more difficult Pulitzer Prize winning books to find in collectible condition. Very Good with toning to the gutters and pastedowns in a Very Good lightly edge-worn dust jacket showing a couple of tiny chips and a small scratch to the front panel.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Gutter cracked before title page with title page coming loose, offsetting on endpapers, small stain on front fly, still a very good copy in a good only dustwrapper with closed tear mid-spine, bottom edges of dustwrapper dampstained and narrow lengthwise tear with loss on bottom edge of rear panel. McPherson's second book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of stories. An increasingly difficult book to find in acceptable condition.

Boston: Atlantic / Little, Brown, 1977. Bound in green and blue boards, stamped in gold in matching dust jacket. The scarce first edition of this African American author's third book, a book of 12 short stories. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in the year of publication. 241 pp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Near Fine.

Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library. As New with no dust jacket. 1980. 1st Thus. Hardcover. Decorative Binding; Fancy Binding; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages; Beautiful deluxe decorative genuine full leather limited collector's edition printed for subscribers only. High quality materials, richly 22 kt gilded, raised bands. Colored silk moire endpapers. Bound in silk marker ribbon. All edges gilt to repel dirt and dust. .

Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp. 304, red/gilt embossed leather, 4 raised bands, silk ribbon, silk endpapers, AEG. A limited edition of this Pulitzer-Prize-winning collection of short stories. ""A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all…

Fawcett Crest, 1975 unused book / old store stock; clean, tight and square, no spine crease, no tears or other creases, text is clean and unmarked, pages are lightly yellowed, corner tips are very gently bumped, page edges are yellow-tipped