Item #325674 Typed letter signed, "Alex" to publisher Barney Rosset ("Dear Barney") on the progress of the writing of Roots. Alex Haley.

Typed letter signed, "Alex" to publisher Barney Rosset ("Dear Barney") on the progress of the writing of Roots.

Westmoreland, Jamaica, West Indies: May 28, 1975.

Price: $4,500.00


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1 page. 4to. Fine.

Item #325674

In part: "... The sundry publishing and television folk are really on my ass. Roots has got to be published during February 1976, a week or two before the premiere of the television series that's to be filmed this summer and fall. I'm nearly done with the basic writing (a very long book!). To expedite the publishing process, two of my editors are coming down here ..."

Haley had published His "Autobiography of Malcolm X" at Barney Rosset's Grove Press.