FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, MAY 2007

Copyright © 1970, copyright renewed 1998 by Toni Morrison
Foreword © 1993, 2007 by Toni Morrison

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Portions of the foreword were previously published as the afterword to the 1993 Knopf edition.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Morrison, Toni.
The bluest eye / by Toni Morrison.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Afro-Americans—Ohio—Fiction. 2. Girls—Ohio—Fiction. I. Title
PS3563.08749855 1993
813.54—DC20
93-43124

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