I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good+. First edition, first printing, first state with red topstain. Signed by Maya Angelou on the half-title page and inscribed: "Dexter Love, Your brother Darryl wishes you Joy. So do I" with date 6/8/2012. [vi], 282, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt and red foil. Very Good with light wear and fading to covers, mottling to spine, bump to upper edge of rear board, and some dispersal of gilt across cloth. Light foxing to textblock edges, light foxing and offsetting to endpapers. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light wear and toning, minor laminate lift at lower edge, some foxing to verso and flaps, and several creases to flaps. A signed first edition of Maya Angelou's best-known work.