Jubilee [Signed]

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (22cm); illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards in green cloth with blue stamped lettering; green topstain; map endpapers; [xiv],497pp. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along folds and spine ends, with creasing along spine and some general smudging / soiling to surface; prior owner's name / address sticker at top of front flap, not obscuring text. Boards nudged at corners and spine ends, with some fading along edges. Topstain faded, with a few brief waterspots. Light bumping to top page corners through middle section. Opens easily between gatherings with rear hinge just barely starting before final page, but binding secure. Prior owners' names on verso of front free endpaper with a spot of pencil erasure on final blank, else interior unmarked.

Walker's historical novel of a mixed-race slave -- based on Walker's great-grandmother -- in Georgia and Alabama around the Civil War. In 1978 Walker sued Alex Haley for alleged similarities between Jubilee and Haley's novel Roots, but the case was dismissed.