The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s First Great Migration.

WILKERSON, Isabel.

Item Number: 146341

New York: Random House, 2010.

First edition of this work which won National Book Critics Circle Award, which was named one of the New York Times’ 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “Isabel Wilkerson Oct. 16, 2010.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Daniel Rembert.

In this beautifully written masterwork, the Pulitzer Prize–winner and bestselling author of Caste chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. “Profound, necessary and an absolute delight to read" (Toni Morrison).