I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Language: English
Published by Random House, USA, 1973
- Hardcover
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PUBLISHER: Random House DATE/EDITION: Early printing. Copyright 1969, LCC #73-85598, number row B 9-2. BINDING: Hardbound in black cloth with author's initials i gold on the front cover, title in gold and Random House logo in red on the spine, 281 pages. DUST JACKET: Priced 5.95 on the front flap. Chipping at the spine ends and some damp staining, heavier on the inside of the jacket and mostly visible on the outside at the bottom rear. BOOK CONDITION: Very faint spots from what ever damp stained the jacket, covers are clean and the corners good and lettering bright. Very slight play to covers but no splits and no webbing visible. Covers are secure and the text block is tight. There is a name written at the top of the first free end paper otherwise interior is unmarked.
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- Title
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Author
- Angelou, Maya
- Publisher
- Random House, USA
- Publication year
- 1973
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394429869
- ISBN 13
- 9780394429861
- Seller catalogs
- Biography/Memoirs, Native American/Minorities
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Review
" I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved."
-James Baldwin
Praise for GATHER TOGETHER IN MY NAME
" Gather Together in My Name is part of a select body of literature that includes The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land and Ernest J. Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Maya Angelou regards the world and herself with intelligence and wit; she records the events of her life with style and grace."
-William McPherson, "The Washington Post Book World"
Praise for ALL GOD'S CHILDREN NEED TRAVELING SHOES
" This is a superb account by a great women who has embraced a difficult destiny with rare intelligence and infectious joie de vivre."
"-The Boston Globe"
Praise for I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
"I know that not since the days of my childhood, when people in books were more real than people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved."
-James Baldwin
Praise for GATHER TOGETHER IN MY NAME
"Gather Together in My Name is part of a select body of literature that includes The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land and Ernest J. Gaines' The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Maya Angelou regards the world and herself with intelligence and wit; she records the events of her life with style and grace."
-William McPherson, "The Washington Post Book World"
Praise for ALL GOD'S CHILDREN NEED TRAVELING SHOES
"This is a superb account by a great women who has embraced a difficult destiny with rare intelligence and infectious joie de vivre."
"-The Boston Globe "
""I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity."--James Baldwin
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity. James Baldwin"
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity. James Baldwin"
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity."--James Baldwin
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