Native Son

by Richard Wright

$4,950 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

New York & London: Harper and Brothers Publisher's, 1940. 8vo, xi, 359 pp. Ttitle-page printed in red and black. Original dark blue cloth with lettering in red, price-clipped jacket with moderate wear and chipping and some old tape repairs, protected by mylar. § First edition, first printing with publisher's A-P code on the copyright page; first state dust-jacket with no blurb on the spine. A milestone in 20th century literature. As Irving Howe wrote in his

• Printing: first

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