Title: Song of Solomon
Author: Toni Morrison
Published: 1978
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
First edition/first impression (‘1978      CHATTO & WINDUS’); UK; hardback with dust wrapper (price-clipped); covered in clear, removable protective wrapper

Very Good+ / Very Good+ : a little bumping and light creasing to spine, a few small, faint stains to exterior of text block, internally clean & bright & unmarked; dust wrapper has a bit of pushing at head & foot of spine, some fading to spine, minor shelfwear at edges, diagonal creases to front inside flap

First British edition of Toni Morrison’s third novel, Song of Solomon, published the year after the American true first edition.

Song of Solomon follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, a young Black man living in Michigan who attempts to escape his restricted family life by embarking on a quest to recover a hoard of missing gold. This physical journey transforms into a profound spiritual awakening as Milkman unearths his family's deep roots in the American South and discovers the mythical history of his ancestors.

The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was chosen for Oprah Winfrey's popular book club, and was cited by the Swedish Academy in awarding Morrison the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1998, the Radcliffe Publishing Course named it the 25th best English-language novel of the 20th century; and in 2015, Robert McCrum included the book in his list of the 100 best novels written in English, which was published in The Guardian newspaper.

Despite all of this critical acclaim, Song of Solomon has been frequently banned in American schools for its language and sexual content.

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