Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the ...
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Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover.
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Add this copy of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings [Hardcover] [Jan 01, to cart. $139.95, good condition, Sold by Book Trader Cafe rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NEW HAVEN, CT, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by RANDOM HOUSE.
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Good. Second printing with 9-3 number line. Janet Halvorsen jacket design. Jacket shows moderate edgewear (with small chips), scratching & aging, but is not price-clipped & is covered in a protective mylar sleeve. Pages are unmarked, but tanned w/ very light foxing. Secure binding. Photos available on request. Signature may be required for delivery. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.
Add this copy of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to cart. $162.45, good condition, Sold by Monarchy Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Toronto, ON, CANADA, published 1969 by Random House.
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Add this copy of I know why the caged bird sings. to cart. $299.95, very good condition, Sold by Retired Teachers rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Livonia, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1970 by Random House.
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Very good in good dust jacket. gift inscription on first end page, minimal marginal markings, dj has closed tear on back, some small chips. See photo. 281 p. 22 cm. Autobiography.
Add this copy of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to cart. $350.00, very good condition, Sold by The Book Bin rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Salem, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Random House.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First printing, with 'first printing' statement and number line to '2' as is consistent with Random House first printings of this era. Black cloth with gold and red titling and decoration, very good with thin margins of sunning along top and bottom of the spine, light shelf-wear. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good with scuffing and light edgewear, small closed tears to either side of spine head. Cover price $5.95 at front inner flap. Red topstain to top of textblock. Interior bright, and free of markings.
Add this copy of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to cart. $400.00, very good condition, Sold by McBlain Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hamden, CT, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Random House.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 281p. Original black cloth. dj. 21 cm. Ends of backstrip slightly faded and rubbed. Ends of jacket backstrip and corners rubbed. INSCRIBED ("To Yvette LeRoy Thanks for your warm support. More joy! Maya Angelou"). Her first book and the first of her autobiographical works.
Add this copy of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to cart. $500.00, like new condition, Sold by T A Borden Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Olney, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by Random House.
Add this copy of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to cart. $550.00, very good condition, Sold by Maxwell's House of Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from La Mesa, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by The Easton Press.
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Very Good. No DJ as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall A beautiful crisp clean leather bound hardcover copy in near fine condition, Easton press bookplate without name on front endpaper and faintly bumped upper corners. Signed by author.
Add this copy of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to cart. $750.00, very good condition, Sold by A Cappella Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlanta, GA, UNITED STATES, published by Random House.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First printing of the author's extraordinary first book. An unusually nice copy in a bright, unclipped and unchipped dust jacket. Black cloth binding with gilt and red spine stamping is also bright and clean. Top edge red staining is unfaded. The only detectable flaw is on the fore-edge, which has a few tiny dark specks. A beautiful book in every way, wrapped for preservation.
Add this copy of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to cart. $975.00, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by The Easton Press.
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Very good. [8], 281, [1] pages. Boxed, With Certificate of Authenticity laid in, signed by Maya Angelou and witnessed by Mildred Garris on 2/16/99. Also signed by Roy S. Pfeil, Publisher. Signed on a special signature page by Maya Angelou with the sentiment Joy! . Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928-May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim. She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult. She was an actress, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. In 1982, she was named the first Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was active in the Civil Rights Movement and worked with Martin Luther King Jr. With the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou publicly discussed aspects of her personal life. She was respected as a spokesperson for black people and women, and her works have been considered a defense of black culture. Her books center on themes such as racism, identity, family and travel. Derived from a Kirkus review: Maya Angelou is a natural writer with an inordinate sense of life and she has written an exceptional autobiographical narrative which retrieves her first sixteen years from "the general darkness just beyond the great blinkers of childhood." Her story is told in scenes, ineluctably moving scenes, from the time when she and her brother were sent by her fancy living parents to Stamps, Arkansas, and a grandmother who had the local Store. Displaced they were and "If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat." But alternating with all the pain and terror and humiliation and fear as well as all the unanswered and unanswerable questions, there are affirmative memories and moments: her charming brother Bailey; her own "unshakable God"; a revival meeting in a tent; her 8th grade graduation; and at the end, when she's sixteen, the birth of a baby. Times When as she says "It seemed that the peace of a day's ending was an assurance that the covenant God made with children, Negroes and the crippled was still in effect." However charily one should apply the word, a beautiful book, an unconditionally involving memoir for our time or any time. Easton Press, a division of MBI, Inc., based in Norwalk, Connecticut, is a publisher specializing in high-quality leather-bound books. In addition to canonical classics, poetry and art books, they publish a large library of science fiction and popular literature as well. Some of Easton Press's products are arranged in monthly subscription series. The Easton Press's books are known for their elegant covers and beautiful illustrations by well-known artists. Each book has the following features: Bound in genuine leather Spine accented with 22 kt gold Printed on acid-free paper[2] Gilded page edges.
Add this copy of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to cart. $1,100.00, like new condition, Sold by Raptis Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Palm Beach, FL, UNITED STATES, published by Random House.
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First edition with the topstain red of Angelou's critically acclaimed first book. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. An exceptional example. "This testimony from a black sister marks the beginning of a new era in the minds and hearts of all black men and women...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. I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not since the days of my childhood, when the people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved...Her portrait is a biblical study in life in the midst of death" (James Baldwin). Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century and by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923.
Great service and the book is in perfect condition!
Lynette J
Jul 15, 2014
Great read
This book was so captivating that it was almost impossible to put down. It is a "must read" for all who enjoy an excellent book.
Michelle
Jun 13, 2013
Great
I love the stories and the way they were told. very moving, powerful, funny, real, and inspirational
Jan S
Dec 6, 2012
Don't miss this!
Maya Angelou shares such poetic beauty with us while explaining an early life that was unique in so many wonderful and disarming ways. This is only the beginning. She has written much more.
Sharyll B
May 12, 2011
Brilliant
Terrific book depicting Maya Angelou's life from
childhood.