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Black Boy A Record of Childhood and Youth
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Hardcover. Later. Very good in good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper is very worn and has slight tears along the edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for..... More
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1945). Hardcover. Reprint. Lightly rubbed on the boards, very good or better lacking the dustwrapper. Likely book club edition with printed flyer and return slip from the book club laid in. The best selling book by any African-American author up until that time. More
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1945). Hardcover. First edition. Introductory note by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Octavo. [viii], 288 [1]pp. Publisher’s blue cloth. Bookseller’s ticket on front free endpaper. Slight stain on upper corner of back cover, gilt stamping on spine is rubbed (as usual), endpapers lightly toned, about very good..... More
BLACK Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1954). Hardcover. Later printing. Octavo. 358pp. About near fine with bottom corners bumped hint of foxing in Very good dust jacket with creasing and moderate edgewear. More
[Carbon Typescript]: Introduction to the book Black Metropolis by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton
1945. Unbound. Carbon typescript. Quarto sheets, typed rectos only, stapled at one corner. 22pp. Near fine with very light creases from being read and the three final pages detached from the staple. A copy of Richard Wright's introduction to the landmark study of Chicago's African-American citizens, *Black Metropolis* by St..... More
Early Works: Lawd Today!, Uncle Tom's Children, & Native Son
(New York): Library of America, (1991). Hardcover. First collected edition. Octavo. 936pp. Maroon cloth. A fine copy in fine publisher's slipcase box. More
Early Works: Lawd Today!; Uncle Tom's Children; Native Son
(New York: The Library of America, 1984). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. More
A Father's Law
New York: Harper Perennial, (2008). Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Small crease on front cover, else fine in pictorial wrappers. More
Later Works: Black Boy (American Hunger), The Outsider.
(New York): The Library of America, (1991). Hardcover. First collected edition. Notes and chronology by Arnold Rampersad. Octavo. 892pp. Maroon cloth. A fine copy in publisher's slipcase box. More
Later Works: Black Boy (American Hunger); The Outsider
(New York): The Library of America, (1991). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a fine glossy dustwrapper. More
Lawd Today
New York: Walker and Company, (1963). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine or better dust jacket with hint of wear at the spine ends on corner. More
The Long Dream
Chatham, New Jersey: The Chatham Bookseller, (1969). Hardcover. Facsimile edition. Octavo. 384pp. Blue cloth titled in gilt. Near fine, issued without dustwrapper. More
The Long Dream
(Sydney): Angus and Robertson, (1960). Hardcover. First Australian edition. Cheap paper is toned as always else fine in fine dust jacket. More
The Long Dream
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1958. Hardcover. First edition. Rubbing at the extremities of the boards and a couple of light smudges or faint stains in the text, else near fine in a nice, near fine dust jacket with a little nominal rubbing at the extremities. Housed in a custom..... More
The Long Dream
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1958. Hardcover. First edition. Very good with binding cocked, small stain at the bottom edge affecting a few pages and discoloration on the front board and spine in very good dust jacket sunned on the spin, moderate edgewear and soiling to the inside..... More
The Long Dream
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1958. Hardcover. First edition. Near fine with ink owner name on pastedowns, wear at the spine ends and a touch cocked in about near fine price-clipped dust jacket sunned at the spine and some edgewear, most notably at the crown. More
The Man Who Lived Underground
(New York): Library of America, (2021). Hardcover. First edition. Afterword by Malcolm Wright. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight rippling. Published for the first time in the full text as the author intended, complete with his companion essay, "Memories of My Grandmother." More
[Manuscript Copy]: Original Ending of "Long Black Song” from Uncle Tom’s Children
[Circa 1937]. Unbound. Five photocopied pages of Wright’s corrected Typescript. Quarto sheets, printed rectos only, with publisher's(?) control number at the top of each page. P. 33-37. All of the text has been crossed out except for the top of the first page, which shows the original ending, and a...... More
Native Son
New York: Modern, 1942. Hardcover. First edition. Good Hardcover with writing on front end paper. Boards very shelf rubbed with fraying and wear on corners, spine ends, some edges. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our..... More
Native Son
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Hardcover. Book club edition. Gray cloth with gilt-stamped spine. Spine slightly cocked, very good in a good only edgeworn and torn dustwrapper with internal tape repair. First novel authored by an African-American to be published by the Book-of-the-Month Club. More
Native Son
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1960. Hardcover. First Australian edition. Very good with cocked spine, owner's bookplate, owner's signature, and foxing to endpapers and page edges in good dustwrapper with long tears and tape repairs to spine, age-toning to back panel, but a bright, lovely front panel. Along with Ellison's *Invisible..... More
Native Son
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Hardcover. Fourth edition, later printing. Pages lightly age-toned, edges lightly rubbed, very good lacking the dustwrapper. More
Native Son
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Hardcover. First book club edition, with the title, author and publisher in gilt on the spine ONLY. Very light wear at the spine ends, else near fine lacking the dustwrapper. The book club is often confused with the true first edition because it includes..... More
Native Son
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Hardcover. Book club edition. Octavo. 359pp. Near fine with touch of edgewear and ink owner name on front flyleaf in good only dust jacket with tears, chips and creases to all the edges and extensive internal tape repairs. The book club is often confused..... More