Signed Alex Haley Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976) Hardcover Fine

Doubleday, 1976. Signed hardcover with dust jacket of Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley. The author Alex Haley has signed and inscribed the front free end paper with a gift inscription. Also includes various news clippings regarding Haley's death. Dust jacket is protected in a mylar sleeve. 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 dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years a