Native first edition di wright richard (25 risultati)

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Facsimile. Facsimile of the first edition was published in 1990, slipcase has some spotting. Dust jacket has just a tad of rubbing. Black cloth boards are in fine condition as is the book's interior. Includes First Edition Library informational insert. "Native Son" was the first novel by an African-American author chosen to be the monthly selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Beautiful facsimile duplicate of the original FIRST EDITION hardcover book and Dust Jacket in AS NEW FINE condition Slipcase in near fine condition with one inch closed tear to rear panel.Bright clean tight.Boards and spine are straight // Binding is tight.//Pages are clean, legible, and bright // No previous owner names//No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No underlining. No highlighting// No foxing// Not Ex Library// Not a Book Club//No remainder mark.//Next day shipping.Shelf1013.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Book Club Edition. Dj Has Very Light Edgewear. The Coloring On The Dj Spine Is Lightly Faded & There Is A Small Light Liquid Stain On It. Very Light Wear. Slipcase Is In Very Good Shape With Very Light Soiilng.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. the facsimile of the first edition book - Near Fine slipcase - Very Good+.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Beautiful facsimile duplicate of the original FIRST EDITION hardcover book and Dust Jacket in a slipcase in AS NEW FINE condition Slipcase in new fine condition.Still in shrinkwrap. Bright clean tight// Binding is tight./// No previous owner names//No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No underlining. No highlighting// No foxing// Not Ex Library// Not a Book Club//No remainder mark.//We ship 5 days a week.ShelfOrtlcase.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Lacks slip case, just the book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. In Near Fine slipase.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. Reissue. Includes publisher's slipcase and insert. Jacket slightly wrinkled from previous owner applying mylar cover too tightly (now removed), minor blemishes to slipcase. 1990 Hard Cover. xi, 359 pp. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. STATED FIRST Printing (THUS) on copyright page. A FINE volume. in same condition UNclipped Dust Jacket. Dark red cloth boards with gilt titles. "Wall-Paper' end-papers. Top of closed page edges has two very faint shadows/smudges. Does not detract from overall fabulous volume. NO interior markings, clean throughout. Ribbon marker in place. Black jacket with original price on lower jacket flap. Classic works. 936 pages. LAID in is a Wall Street Journal newspaper article discussing his writing/books and life from 2021 (in its own mylar slip). Mylar protected jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1968 Hardcover book with slipcase. Book in new condition, no marking inside, clean DJ. Slipcase sturdy with light shelf wear.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. Fascimile of the first edition. Very Good+ hardcover in somewhat sunned dust jacket and slightly bumped slipcase. Appears to be unread--a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Facsimile Reprint Edition. First Edition Library facsimile reprint of the first publisher's edition (1940). Copyright renewed 1968, this edition undated but 1980s-90s. Black cloth, with gray and orange title/author fields, in color dust jacket now in mylar, slipcased. Lacking publisher's insert, otherwise as issued. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Special Edition. Fine first edition facsimile of "Native Son" by Richard Wright in a handsome slipcase. First Edition Library specialized in the publication of highly faithful first edition facsimiles of a number of famous works of American and International literature in the 1980s and 1990s. The publisher paid especial attention to the dimensions, paper weight (though not type), binding, typeface, and other peculiarities of the proper first editions.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Native Son by Richard Wright. First Edition Library, Shelton, Connecticut, 1987. First edition FACSIMILE. Slip case measures 8.75 x 5.75". 359 p. In very good condition. Slip case exhibits light shelf wear. Dust jacket remains attractive. Small spots of soiling on rear board. Text-block is bright and clean. Binding is tight and intact. Please see photos. Richard Wright was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence. His best known works include the novella collection Uncle Tom's Children (1938), the novel Native Son (1940), and the memoir Black Boy (1945). Literary critics believe his work helped change race relations in the United States in the mid-20th century. First Editions Library (FEL) is a series of exact facsimile replicas of the first editions published by Collectors' Reprint Inc. Founded in 1987 by Henry Reath, a former president and publisher of Doubleday; his wife, Mary; and Kemp Battle, who also worked at Doubleday, the company prided itself on publishing the best of American literature as it first appeared. FEL facsimiles have the same weight, size, typeface, art, dust jacket, finish and texture as well as points of issue as the originals. In many cases, the Reaths and Battle waded into debate amongst themselves about which editions were indeed the first. With the mission of duplicating the originals as closely as possible, the publisher hired engravers to reproduce typefaces that are no longer used. They dyed both sides of paper to create a shade of green no longer available for the dust jacket on Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey. The sewn bindings, stamping and even the original price on the jacket flap of FEL facsimiles are all exact replicas. The heart of the FEL series is literary fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, including modern classics like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, and William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom. However, there are four categories of exception: James Bond series (14 titles), mystery series (13 titles), science fiction series (12 titles), and Published in Paris series (3 titles). In total, FEL produced 112 titles. Sometime in the 1990s, FEL stopped production and sold the rights for 49 of its facsimiles to Easton Press. However, the remaining 63 titles are out-of-print. RAREN1987ABBB MC64 26/01.…

Gilt decorated hard cover. Stated first edition. Very scarce in this condition. Near fine copy (lettering on spine partially worn, name on end paper) in edge chipped, light wear dust jacket (in mylar).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Meets or exceeds the good condition guidelines. Nice copy. Has minor tearing. Writing inside cover. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1940. 359 pages. First edition stated, first printing. Publisher's A-P code present on the copyright page just below the First Edition statement. Navy blue cloth with requisite red and white/gray boxed titles on front panel and spine. 1940 date on both the copyright page and title page. Binding and hinges are sound. Endpapers are bright. Book is square with four sharp corners. Original, rare first issue DJ in yellow and bright green. This is the first state of the first edition DJ with no reviews on spine area. FWIW, second state of the first edition DJ has reviews on spine. Again, this is the first state DJ of the first edition. Attractive, rarw DJ has $2.50 price-clipped from the flap and replaced with a faint pencil price. DJ shows minor edge rubbing and minimal soiling. This super-rare DJ would grade higher if not for slight sunning to spine with an open one inch chip at crown. A most desirable, collectible copy of Richard Wright's classic. It's hard to imagine a crisper copy of this first edition exists. Book is fine, DJ is VG+ with flaws noted. A plum for any serious collector.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Native Son - Richard Wright First Edition 1st State Binding 1940. Very Good book in the original scarce first state navy binding, boards slightly skewed, corners bumped mildly, prev. owner's initials to front pastedown.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition and printing of Richard Wright's masterpiece in the scarce first state navy binding. [xii], 359pp VG+ book, lacking dust jacket, small scratch to spine label, faint spotting to front cover, very small stain to fore edge, on last several leads, binding square, slight forward lean to text block.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Native Son - Richard Wright First Edition, First State Binding and Jacket 1940. Wright's thrilling, fierce indictment of systemic racism still sadly far too relevant in America today. Very Good book in the original scarce first state navy binding in a Good first state lightly soiled dust jacket, most significant loss to spine ends and head joints of dust jacket, other minor tears, chips, and creasing to extremities. Fore-edge of jacket has a few small holes but flaps still strongly attached.…

Wright, Richard. Native Son, 1950, brings Wright's 1940 novel of Bigger Thomas and segregated Chicago into the expanding postwar mass-market paperback market. Set on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s, the novel follows Bigger after he accidentally kills Mary Dalton, the daughter of his white employer, and traces the fear, violence, racial confinement, and legal consequences that follow. Wright's novel became a major intervention in African American literature by locating Bigger's actions within the social conditions imposed by racial segregation, poverty, restricted housing, and unequal power rather than treating his crimes as isolated acts. Wright, Richard. Native Son. New York: Signet Books, 1950. First mass-market paperback edition. 413 pages. Cover art by James Avati. The illustrated wrapper shows a somber Black man facing outward while an older woman grips his arm; a white couple stands behind them. Avati's composition translates the novel's racial and familial tensions into the visual language of midcentury paperback publishing. Signet's 1950 edition belonged to a period when inexpensive paperbacks were carrying established literary works into drugstores, newsstands, and other retail outlets far beyond the traditional bookstore market. Published ten years after the novel's first appearance, this Signet edition documents the continued circulation of Wright's portrayal of Black life in northern urban America during the era of Jim Crow. Its cover treatment is especially characteristic of the mass-market paperback industry, which frequently packaged serious literary fiction with dramatic figurative art intended for broad retail display. Minor wrinkles and scratches to covers, with creasing to spine. Otherwise good condition.…

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Lightly sunned spine. Facsimile.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1940. 359 pages. First edition stated, first printing. Publisher's A-P code present on copyright page just below First Edition statement. 1940 date present on copyright page and title page. Navy cloth in requisite red and white/gray blocks on front panel and backstrip. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Minor soiling to cloth panels. Endpapers are bright and clean with minor faint toning to FFEP (barely.) Original, rare green and yellow DJ with $2.50 price intact on flap. This DJ has reviews on the spine area. The preferred first edition DJ's lack reviews on spine. Still, original yellow and green DJs are scarce, regardless of spine reviews. DJ has multiple flaws; most notable is a shallow, open chip along top edge of front, with slight trimming at base. Rear of DJ shows scuffing and rubbing, with a protective coating. Green hue on spine area is dulled. Book is tight and clean with flaws noted; in a fair but original scarce yellow and green DJ, with $2.50 price intact on flap. …

First Edition. [African American] [Literature] Wright, Richard. Native Son. First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. 359 pages. Measures 5.75" x 8.25". Bound in full gray cloth, stamped in navy and gold in matching, no dust jacket. This is the true first edition text, but in the later state gray binding. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America. "Native Son" by Richard Wright has been banned in some places due to its portrayal of racism and violence, as well as its explicit language. Some critics argue that the book's content is not suitable for certain audiences, such as students in schools. However, others argue that the book's depiction of the harsh realities of racism and its impact on individuals is an important part of understanding history and society. The book is tight and clean, with the author's neat name, place on the front end paper: "B.W. Cummings" dated 1940. Some minor foxing to rear end paper. Overall, in very good condition.…

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. First Edition. Original red cloth, very good with minimal fading to crown of spine, gold titles to spine, bright. This copy in a good dust jacket, with slight chips to upper front cover, and crown of spine. Dust jacket enclosed in a plastic protective jacket. A nice copy.…