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ANGELOU, Maya.

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.

"Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between": First Edition, First Issue of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

New York: Random House, 1969.

$1,100.00
Out of Stock Item Number: RRB-144542
* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete
First edition with the topstain red of Angelou's critically acclaimed first book. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. An exceptional example.
"This testimony from a black sister marks the beginning of a new era in the minds and hearts of all black men and women... I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity. I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not since the days of my childhood, when the people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved... Her portrait is a biblical study in life in the midst of death" (James Baldwin). Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century and by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923.
$1,100.00
Out of Stock