(Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976).

AN AMERICAN CLASSIC. The saga of an American family and one of the great bestsellers of the 1970’s. In this work, Haley became the first African-American citizen to trace his lineage back to Africa and so for over 25,000,000 Americans of African descent he helped to rediscover a rich cultural heritage that slavery had effectively buried. Item #29852

First Edition, early issue, $12.50 price on dustjacket, no statement. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original cloth backed boards lettered and decorated in gilt. viii, 587 pp. A very fine and clean copy with only the very lightest mellowing to the jacket and some very light edgewear to the foot of the jacket.