Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1976 • Doubleday & Company

Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1976] DOUBLEDAY & CO. True 1st w/ $12.50 jacket price on unclipped front panel. Hardcover with dust jacket in very good reading condition.   Dust jacket shows some wear and tear along top of spine / areas of tanning.  All tears are sealed. Otherwise, fully in tact and looking sharp in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.  Book itself is very nice.  Clean boards; tight binding, and bright, unmarked pages.  Tanning to text block.  Reads beautifully! When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the "Kamby Bolongo" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and drag