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  • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780822935896
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Very Good+. First Edition in clean unchipped dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Red endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 129 pages. Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for 1988. Dust jacket is clean, unchipped, no wear, some fading to spine background; nice photo of author on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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  • Publisher: University of Pittsburg Press, PA
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: Softcover
  • ISBN: 9780822935896
Book and dj are fine. Signed and dated by the Poet on the title page and Inscribed to Jim Brady on the dedication page by the Poet.
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  • Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780822935896
Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket W/A Small Tear On The Top Front Of The Dustjacket
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  • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780822935896
Pittsburgh. 1988. University Of Pittsburgh Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket W/A Small Tear On The Top Front Of The Dustjacket. 0822935899. 131 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Gary Gore. keywords: Literature America Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Winner of the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Margaret Atwood. Reginald McKnight's MOUSTAPHA'S ECLIPSE was chosen by Margaret Atwood as the winner of the eighth Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction. His collection of ten short stories was selected from over 300 manuscripts submitted by published writers to the contest. The stories of MOUSTAPHA'S ECLIPSE are spoken in a true host of voices, savvy guides to the worlds of West Africa and black America, through the minefields of adolescence, racism, found and failed beliefs. Idi, a Senegalese English translator, tells a number of these tales, transposing African myths into a language his friend, a visiting black American anthropologist, understands enough to mistrust. There is the story of the ‘snaggletoothed, illiterate' peddler Moustapha Diole, who would take a knife to his own body to sell a protective charm; and of the prosperous and spiritual peanut farmer of the title story who would witness an eclipse at the price of blindness. Woven among the African voices are native American ones. In ‘First I Look at the Purse, ' Walter, a super-smooth high school hood, falls, in spite of himself, for a Rosicrucian-turning him on to ‘auras and magnetism, ' and leading him to out-of-body experiences. ‘Peaches' explores a black woman's first romance, a relationship with a white student that forces her to confront racism and love in the same moments, in the same man. inventory #23664.
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  • Publisher: Uiversity of Pittsburgh Press 1988-07-01, US
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780822935896
129 pages. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Heavy sunning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462701
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  • Publisher: Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: Hardcover
Housed in a NF dustwrapper that shows one minor 3/4" closed tear to bottom of front panel. Overall, a tight, clean first edition of this the African-American author's scarce first book. Winner of the Drue Heinz Literary Prize in year of publication.
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  • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Date published: (1988)
  • Format: Hardcover
Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
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  • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, (Pittsburgh, PA)
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780822935896
First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.
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  • Publisher: Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780822935896
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  • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh
  • Date published: 1988
Winner of the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Prize (Selected by Margaret Atwood). The ten short stories of "Moustapha's Eclipse" are spoken in a true host of voices, savvy guides to the worlds of West Africa and Black America, through the minefields of adolescence, racism, found and failed beliefs.
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  • Publisher: Uiversity Of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780822935896
Winner of the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Selected by Margaret Atwood.
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  • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780822935896
Pittsburgh. 1988. University Of Pittsburgh Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket W/A Small Tear On The Top Front Of The Dustjacket. 0822935899. 131 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Gary Gore. keywords: Literature America Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Winner of the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Margaret Atwood. Reginald McKnight's MOUSTAPHA'S ECLIPSE was chosen by Margaret Atwood as the winner of the eighth Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction. His collection of ten short stories was selected from over 300 manuscripts submitted by published writers to the contest. The stories of MOUSTAPHA'S ECLIPSE are spoken in a true host of voices, savvy guides to the worlds of West Africa and black America, through the minefields of adolescence, racism, found and failed beliefs. Idi, a Senegalese English translator, tells a number of these tales, transposing African myths into a language his friend, a visiting black American anthropologist, understands enough to mistrust. There is the story of the ‘snaggletoothed, illiterate' peddler Moustapha Diole, who would take a knife to his own body to sell a protective charm; and of the prosperous and spiritual peanut farmer of the title story who would witness an eclipse at the price of blindness. Woven among the African voices are native American ones. In ‘First I Look at the Purse, ' Walter, a super-smooth high school hood, falls, in spite of himself, for a Rosicrucian-turning him on to ‘auras and magnetism, ' and leading him to out-of-body experiences. ‘Peaches' explores a black woman's first romance, a relationship with a white student that forces her to confront racism and love in the same moments, in the same man. inventory #23664.
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  • Publisher: PITTSBURGH. 1988
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition. Near fine in dust jacket (Edges lightly foxed. ) Author's FIRST book. Stories.
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  • Publisher: PITTSBURGH. 1988
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition. Near fine in dust jacket (Edges lightly foxed. ) Author's FIRST book. Stories.
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  • Publisher: PITTSBURGH. 1988
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition. Near fine in dust jacket (Edges lightly foxed. ) Author's FIRST book. Stories.
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  • Publisher: PITTSBURGH., PITTSBURGH
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition. Review copy. (Publicity release laid-in . ) SIGNED by Reginald McKnight & dated in 1993 on the title page. Close to fine in fine dust jacket (Hint of faint foxing at edges. ) Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner. Stories. The author's FIRST book.
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  • Publisher: PITTSBURGH.
  • Date published: 1988
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition. Review copy. (Publicity release laid-in. ) SIGNED by Reginald McKnight & dated in 1993 on the title page. Close to fine in fine dust jacket (Hint of faint foxing at edges. ) Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner. Stories. The author's FIRST book.
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  • Publisher: PITTSBURGH.
  • Date published: 1988
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First edition. Review copy. (Publicity release laid-in. ) SIGNED by Reginald McKnight & dated in 1993 on the title page. Close to fine in fine dust jacket (Hint of faint foxing at edges. ) Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner. Stories. The author's FIRST book.
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