ANGELOU, Maya.
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
"What pleasure, what Hospitality. What Warmth, And So many thanks": I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings; Lengthily Inscribed by Maya Angelou
New York: Random House, 1969.
$1,500.00
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First edition, second printing of Angelou's critically acclaimed first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Roslyn: To Biel, What pleasure, what Hospitality. What Warmth, And So many thanks Joy! Maya Angelou Sept '70 What's next?" Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson.
"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.
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
$1,500.00
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