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WRIGHT, Richard. 12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. Viking Press, 1946.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: No DJ.

Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.

WRIGHT, Richard. 12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. Viking Press, New York, 1946.

Price: US$285.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Third printing (retaining 1941 on titlepage, but actually 1946). Photo-Direction by Edwin Rosskam. Quarto. About fine in very good or better dust jacket with a bit if rubing and tiny nicks and tears. A handsome copy of this beautiful photographically illustrated essay about the black experience, with striking images photos by Dorothea Lange, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Ben Shahn, and others, with text by Wright.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

WRIGHT, Richard. 12 Million Black Voices. The Viking Press, New York, 1946.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: Third printing. Hardcover. 152 pages. A powerful book that features the text by Richard Wright, the author of "Native Son." Includes a wide selection of photographs from some of the best photographers who worked for the Farm Security Administration. Among the photographers represented are Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, Dorothea Lange, Carl Mydans, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn and Edwin Rosskam who also was the photo-director of the book. An about very good copy in cloth boards with heavy bumping to the top right corner and to the spine ends and in an about very good dust jacket with some chips, tears, and extensive tape repairs to the verso. Increasingly uncommon in any of the early editions with a dust jacket.

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.