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Wright, Richard and Edwin Rosskam. 12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. The Viking Press, New York, 1941.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: B&W illustrated DJ with red, black and light brown lettering; beige cloth boards with red and beige lettering; 152 pp.; richly illustrated. 12 Million Black Voices combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Farm Security Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein. From crowded, run-down farm shacks to Harlem storefront churches, the photos depict the lives of black people in America - their misery and weariness under rural poverty, their spiritual strength, and their lives in northern ghettos. Wright's accompanying text eloquently narrates the story of these pictures and delivers a powerful commentary on the origins and history of black oppression in this country. -- WorldCat. Good (Ex-Library with sticker on lower DJ spine and to rear pastedown; DJ is heavily chipped and worn/toned/foxed; boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean but toned with occasionaly foxing/smudging; textblock is cracked.)

Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.

Richard Wright. 12 Million Black Voices A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. Viking Press, New York, 1941.

Price: US$240.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition of Wright's scarce treatise on the history of Black people in the United States, illustrated profusely with black and white photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam. Very Good, shelf wear, rear board corner stain, bruised spine; fair dust jacket, spine chipped, edges worn and creased, cover title section displaced, rear cover section displaced, fairly worn Hardcover [quarto] cream cloth boards, red-framed spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 151 pp

Seller: Better Read Than Dead, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.

Richard Wright. 12 Million Black Voices. The Viking Press, 1941.

Price: US$320.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: The Viking Press January 1941 Binding: Hardcover Front Border has staining near the spine, book is has weathered, book is still tight and clean. $NRP

Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.

Wright, Richard; Rosskam, Edwin. 12 Million Black Voices; A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. Viking Press, New York, 1941.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Text by Richard Wright, Photo-direction by Edwin Rosskam. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), heavily rubbed and with multiple chips, tears, and creases, tidemarks at the flap folds. Oatmeal cloth, lightly toned, with a red ink panel and lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a black top stain, lacking the front endpaper, tidemarks at the fore-edges of the pages. Wright's history of the Black experience in America that "accepts as basic and centrally historical those materials of Negro life identified with the countless back millions who made up the bulk of the slave population during the sevententh, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries; those teeming black millions who endured the phyiscal and spiritual ravages of serfdom; those legions of nameless blacks who felt the shock and hope of sudden emancipation; those terrified black folk who withstood the brutal wrath of the Ku Klux Klan, and who fled the cotton and tobacco plantations to seek refuge in northern and southern cities coincident with the decline of the cotton culture of the Old South."

Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.

Wright, Richard. Photo direction by Edwin Rosskam. 12 Million Black Voices A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. The Viking Press, New York, 1941.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Moving, memorable and disturbing photos by some of the greats, including Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, etc. 4to. 26 by 18 cm. 152 pp. Darkening to parts of the cloth, with some spotting/foxing spread about but inconspicuous given how it blends into the material. DJ neatly price clipped but otherwise is well preserved, with perhaps a touch of soil, and now protected by mylar. Interior of book is clean.

Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.

[FSA] WRIGHT, Richard; ROSSKAM, Edwin.. 12 Million Black Voices. A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. Text by Richard Wright. Photo-Direction by Edwin Rosskam.. New York The Viking Press, 1941.

Price: US$1815.00 + shipping

Description: First edition; 8vo (254 x 174 mm, 10 x 6¾ in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure, black topstain, occasional light foxing; plain endpapers with toning to pastedowns and gutter, natural linen-covered boards, titles stamped to spine in red, lightly toned, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, printed in black and red, light toning at fore-edge, minor wear to edges with a short tear to top edge of upper panel, short tear and crease at lower flapfold, bookplate of Robert E. Reid on front pastedown, a superior copy; 152pp. Richard Wright was asked to write a book on the plight of African Americans living in poverty during the Great Depression following the Great Migration. 12 Million Black Voices is divided into four sections: 'Our Strange Birth,' 'Inheritors of Slavery,' 'Death on the City Pavements,' and 'Men in the Making'' with Wright's text accompanied by Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam, many of which were not published elsewhere. The contributing photographers are Rosskam himself, Dorothea Lange, Jack Delano, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, Ben Shahn, Marion Post, John Vachon, with additional press photographs of a lynching in Georgia, the Harlem riots in New York, the Ford Riots in Dearborn, Michigan, and a demonstration in Washington D.C. The cover features Walker Evans' photograph 'Flood Refugees, Alabama' on both sides. Photographers of the FSA P23; Auer Collection p291.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

Wright, Richard. 12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States.. The Viking Press, New York, 1941.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of this powerful work by the author of The Native Son, featuring photographs by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed Richard Wright on the front free endpaper. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Photo-direction by Edwin Rosskam. Uncommon signed. 12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Arthur Rothstein. From crowded, rundown farm shacks to Harlem storefront churches, the photos depict the lives of black people in 1930s Americaâ€"their misery and weariness under rural poverty, their spiritual strength, and their lives in northern ghettos. Wright's accompanying text eloquently narrates the story of these 90 pictures and delivers a powerful commentary on the origins and history of black oppression in this country. "Among all the works of Wright, 12 Million Black Voices stands out as a work of poetry, . passion, . and of love" (David Bradley).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

WRIGHT, Richard. 12 MILLION BLACK VOICES. Viking Press, NY, 1941.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

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Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.