A near fine plus to fine unread copy of the very uncommon true 1st printing of this acclaimed novel from award-winning American author, writer and poet Percival Everett (b. 1956), who also serves as a Professor of English at the University of Southern California.  He has been releasing books since the 1980's; his earlier works include 'Erasure ', 'Wounded ' and 'I Am Not Sidney Poitier '. 



This book was named on the 2022 Booker Prize Shortlist and was considered a strong contender for the prize but not the favourite.   His latest award-winning novel 'James ' was the clear favourite with critics, reviewers and the bookmakers for the 2024 Booker Prize but was denied.  It was, however, the strong favourite for, and the deserved winner of, the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.






'The Trees ', published by Graywolf Press in Minneapolis on 21 September 2021, true 1st edition (published 6 months before the UK edition from Influx Press appeared on 24 March 2022), large modern paperback original, [viii] + 310 pages.






In near fine plus to fine unread condition, no markings or inscriptions and no spine creasing.  Light edge and corner wear.  Some storage wear and bumping to the foot of the spine (see photo 8).






** A rare copy of the true 1st printing of this important work from Mr Everett.   No other copies are available worldwide on Ebay or ABE Books at the time of listing, save for a signed copy on Ebay (which does not say it is a 1st print but may be) that is listed at over £600) **











** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 **




The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi.  When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk.

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The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till, a young black boy lynched in the same town 65 years before.  The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country.  Something truly strange is afoot.  As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried.



In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in a fast-paced style that ensures the reader can't look away.  The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance.





‘The novelist has regularly exploded our models of genre and identity.  In The Trees, he’s raising the stakes, confronting America’s legacy of lynching in a mystery at once hilarious and horrifying.’ -- The New Yorker











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