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May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Mali is very dangerous--First I look at the purse--Peaches Who Big Bob? --Uncle Moustapha's eclipse--Gettin to be like the studs--The voice--The honey boys--How I met Idi at the Bassi Dakaru Restaurant--Rebirth.

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 129 p.

Brand new trade paperback: spine is perfect; Excellent

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 129 p.

A square solid tight clean carefully read copy. The jacket has some light rubbing wear, minor edgewear, a short closed tear. Picked by Margaret Atwood for the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Mali is very dangerous--First I look at the purse--Peaches Who Big Bob? --Uncle Moustapha's eclipse--Gettin to be like the studs--The voice--The honey boys--How I met Idi at the Bassi Dakaru Restaurant--Rebirth.

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.

DJ has sunned spine.

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 129 p.

Brand new trade paperback: spine is perfect; Excellent

Size: 9x6x0; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & foxing on edges of text block. Signed by author on title page. Inscribed by author on dedication page. Dj lightly shelf worn with small scuffs & scratches. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 129 p.

SIGNED & DATED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ALSO ON THE DEDICATION PAGE. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 129 pages. Author's first book. GIFT GIVING CONDITION.

Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 129 p.

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 129 p.

A square solid tight clean carefully read copy. The jacket has some light rubbing wear, minor edgewear, a short closed tear. Picked by Margaret Atwood for the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.

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.

DJ has sunned spine.

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.

Size: 9x6x0; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & foxing on edges of text block. Signed by author on title page. Inscribed by author on dedication page. Dj lightly shelf worn with small scuffs & scratches. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.

SIGNED & DATED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ALSO ON THE DEDICATION PAGE. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 129 pages. Author's first book. GIFT GIVING CONDITION.

Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 129 p.

Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 129 p.

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.

Size: 9x6x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

First edition. Near fine in dust jacket (Edges lightly foxed. ) Author's FIRST book. Stories.

Size: 9x6x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Reprint. Wrappers. Very near fine. Signed by the author, and additionally very warmly Inscribed by McKnight to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco. Additionally laid in is a two-page typescript with hand-corrections, of Delbanco's introduction of McKnight at a reading at the University of Michigan.

Size: 9x6x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

First edition. Near fine in dust jacket (Edges lightly foxed. ) Author's FIRST book. Stories.

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.

Size: 9x6x0; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Reprint. Wrappers. Very near fine. Signed by the author, and additionally very warmly Inscribed by McKnight to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco. Additionally laid in is a two-page typescript with hand-corrections, of Delbanco's introduction of McKnight at a reading at the University of Michigan.

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.