Tar Baby / Toni Morrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrison, Toni, 1931-2019, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fugitives from justice--Fiction.

Fugitives from justice.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Caribbean Area--Fiction.

Caribbean Area.

Retirees--Fiction.

Retirees.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 305 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First Trade Edition].

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by Random House, Inc.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.

Summary:

Winner of the 1978 National Book Critic's Circle Award for fiction. "Beautiful and satisfying . . . an unusually wise and large-spirited book . . . consistently picturesque, charged with startling images".--Baltimore Sun

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."

"The text of this book was set on the Linotype in Fairfield, a type face designed by the distinguished American artist and engraver, Rudolph Ruzicka."--A Note on the Type.

"Book design by Margaret M. Wagner."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB The Library of Joanna Banks".

ISBN:

0394423291 :

OCLC:

6789342