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Winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize 1988. Author signed on title page. 129p.

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Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Book is clean. Pages have no markings. Suitable as a gift.

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.

Cover is in good condition save for some slight corner bumping, edge wear, and significant rubbing throughout. DJ suffers extensive rubbing to front and back covers with minimal edge wear. Text is clean and tight in binding. No ownership or other markings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall

Signed by the author on the title page. The book is unmarked; spine slanted but uncreased; some creasing and edgewear to the wraps; Mylar protected.

Softcover. First softcover edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page, and SIGNED again, with date and inscription, on the dedication page ("Bored Loaf, '95") . Illustrated covers are clean and sharp, slight uplift to corners. Book is firm in binding, crisp interior. In Fine + condition. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 129 pages; Signed by Author

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.

129p., very good first edition in cloth boards and gilt, unclipped dj with faded spine. Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner selected by Margaret Atwood. African American author's first book.

First Edition, First Printing. Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Octavo. Green cloth boards stamped in gold with red endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. Light fading to spine. 129 pages. ISBN: 0822935899. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

First edition. A short red line on the front fly, else fine in fine dustwrapper.

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.

This is "Moustapha's Eclipse" , a book of short stories by black author Reginald McKnight. The book won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for 1988. Published by the University of Pittsburgh, this is a signed First Edition with the dated signature of Mcknight on the title page. It is previously owned, and has a neatly inked gift inscription on the front free end-paper. ****************************************************** The stories in the book are : Mali is Very Dangerous / First I Looked 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 ********************************************* Said Margaret Atwood about McKnights work : " These stories display an enviable verbal panache, a wacky inventiveness, and, from time to time, a directness and honesty that makes you squirm. The writer's focus is on Black experience, in both America and Africa, but he brings to it his own quirkiness, his own distinctive voice. He is a writer very much worth watching." ***************************************** TITLE : Moustapha's Eclipse / AUTHOR : Reginald McKnight / IMPRINT : University of Pittsburgh / PLACE : Pittsburgh, PA / DATE : (1988) / EDITION : First Edition / STATUS : OP / SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Dated signature of the author on title page. Winner of the 1988 Drue Heinz Literature Award / DETAILS : Trade hardcover; 129 pages plus one page of previous Drue Heinz Award recipient; approx. 6" x 9"; dark turquoise-green, cloth covered binding with gilt lettering on spine and front board; red end-papers; decorated dust-jacket has a photograph of McKnight on the rear panel. ************************************* CONDITION : BOOK: VERY GOOD JACKET : VERY GOOD This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive. The book has a dated signature by McKnight, and a neatly penned gift inscription by an unknown person, and the following particulars noted: EXTERIOR : Clean and bright with near-negligible signs of handling; text-block edges are clean. / BINDING : Solid / INTERIOR : Neat and brief penned gift inscription on front free end-paper; authors dated signature on title page, else all is clean and presentable with no other marking. / DUST-JACKET : Fading to spine, else clean and attractive with near-negligible signs of wear.

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

Bleeding of green cloth onto back of back panel of jacket.

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

First edition. Owner name, else fine in a fine dustwrapper.

Winner of the Dreu Heinz Literature Prize. Very clean copy protected in a mylar cover. Straight and tight. Dust jacket sun-faded at the spine. Light foxing beginning on top edge. Red endpapers. First state of this work. Hardcover in green cloth with gilt titling

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.

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.

Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket W/A Small Tear On The Top Front Of The Dustjacket

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.

129 pages. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Heavy sunning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462701

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.

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

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.

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.