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Book. Octavo, 210 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. White spine with green and red lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is clipped, has mild shelving wear, mild age-toning, mild wear along the edges, mild wear along the fore corners, and mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Boards have mild wear along the edges and mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has. mild age-toning throughout and mild wear along the edges. Signed "Joy! " by Maya Angelou on second half-title page. Shelved Room C. 1385928. Special Collections.

The Franklin Library; Franklin Center, 1986. Deluxe Leather Collector Edition. First Edition. Signed by author directly on prelim. A Very Good copy. Gilt embossed full leather binding is very nice with sharp corners, AEG are fresh and bright with few blemishes to top text block edge. Bound in Fine Genuine Leather-22kt gold-stamped spine accents-Distinctive raised spine hubs, -Intricate gilt stamped cover designs, -Specially milled acid-neutral paper, -Smyth-sewn pages, -Gilded page edges, -Permanent satin ribbon page-marker. Binding firm, book unread, some scuffing to top text block edge, trace handling marks. 211pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.

Octavo, [xx], 211pp. Full green morocco, gilt pattern and trim stamped to covers. Four raised bands, title in gilt on spine. All edges gilt, lightly scuffed, with green silk bookmark sewn-in. Marbled endpapers. Limitation page stated this copy "has been privately printed and personally signed by Maya Angelou, exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society." Solid text block, appears unread. Inscribed by Angelou on the front flyleaf: "Arthur Miller, I thank you for your great gifts to us all. Maya Angelou, Joy! 1/88." An exceptional association copy. Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was a renowned American playwright. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 for his work, "Death of a Salesman." Miller's writing often had political and social undertones; most notably "The Crucible" (1953), in which he used the Salem witch trials as an allegory for the intensity of the McCarthyism era of the 1950s.