Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Wright Richard. Native Son. Harper and Brothers, Publishers, New York - London, 1940.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Previous owners name is written inside on front free end paper.
Seller: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard.. Native Son.. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Native Son. Wright, Richard. Harper & Brothers, 1940. "B-P" ON COPYRIGHT PAGE, NO EDITION STATED. hardcover no dust jacket, covers bumped/scuffed/chipped/boards loose, tight binding, text clean, binding threads visible inside hinges8.00
Seller: TotalitarianMedia, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover corners & spine ends are moderately bumped & worn. Slight looseness to spine. Some foxing to inside cover & facing pg. A pretty nice copy.
Seller: The Unskoolbookshop, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$11.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book Club Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in gray cloth w/black spine medallions and gold titles; identical binding as second state First Ed. (with first edition identification and A-P code on copyright page) and in the same second state dust jacket but without price on front flap. Very Good book in Good DJ, now in clear protective cover. Book has light slant, foxed endpapers, dulled topstain, stained top rear cloth, binding firm, interior clean and unmarked; jacket stained, heavily worn w/ chips, taped tears (including long tear to darkened spine). 359pp.
Seller: BASEMENT BOOKS, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native son.. Harper And Brothers., 1940.
Price: US$11.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
richard wright. native son. harper amd bros., 1940.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: states first edition. grey cloth boards, just light wear, clean unmarked content.
Seller: Chiefly Books, Cheyenne, WY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Bros., 1940.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Grey cl., beige lettering, lines on black field and design on backstr., edges v. sl. rubbed, corners sl. rubbed. Name ffep. Xi, 359. Original ed., B-P on copyright p.
Seller: Cragsmoor Books, Cragsmoor, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover lightly scuffed with corners and spine rubbed and worn. Inside front cover has piece of paper taped in. Text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harpers, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1940.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: No DJ. Book in fair shape. Binding is tight but spine and corners are frayed. A fine writer. Good reading copy.
Seller: The Book Lovers, Philo, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. NY Harper 1940., 1940.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: VG. Owner's label fep. Spine and corners sl worn. Sl shaken. 5th ed.
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. HARPER BROTHERS, NEW YORK, 1940.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: General shelf wear, Dj has many closed tears and creasing around the edges and corners and to the spine, edges are rubbed, fore edges are deckled and soiled, text is unmarked but tanned, endpapers are foxed, good binding DATE PUBLISHED: 1940 EDITION: 5TH EDITION 359
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK AND LONDON, 1940.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boards: title on spine, mild wear, rubs, corner bumps, some soil marks, front hinge crack. Interior: inscription from the previous owner on the front free end paper, pages tanned, few pages creased. Top pages tinted. DATE PUBLISHED: 1940 EDITION: FIFTH 359
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 359 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Light foxing on page edges, not affecting text. No dust jacket.
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son 1ST Edition. HARPER & BROS, 1940.
Price: US$12.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Binding well intact. Pages unmarked, but lightly tanned with age, and ex-libris sticker on front endpaper. Cover clean and well intact, with minor wear at corners, general aging throughout, and scuffing at title on spine. No dust jacket. Support an independent used bookstore in Minneapolis. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 359 pages
Seller: Eat My Words Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son [FIRST PRINTING]. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$12.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good. No dust jacket. Stated 1st edition, no numberline with A-P designation (1st printing). Second state binding, with blue/grey boards and black-and-gold title and author's name. No dust jacket. xxxiv, 392 p.; 22 cm. The black-and-gold printing on the spine is flaking. Head and base of spine are wrinkled. Corners are mildly bumped. It appears that a page may been removed between the first chapter title page and the first page of text. Classic novel by the late author of 'Black Boy' and 'The Outsider'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Seller: MostlySignedBooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$14.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1940 at the bottom of title page with B-P on copyright page, early printing. Gray cloth with gold gilt title on spine on black block. Dust jacket has several chips, closed tears, and edgewear. It shows a black man leaning on a brick building. No price on d.j. A great reading copy and very early printing of this classic book.
Seller: A.C. Daniel's Collectable Books, South Paris, ME, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1940.
Price: US$14.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xi, [1], 359 pages. First edition, second issue binding (gray cloth); with Harper code "A-P" (i.e. January 1940) on title page verso. title page printed in red and black. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. (shelfwear, rubbing and slight dulling to extremities, tips and corners rubbed, slight browning to edges). Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper and Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated "First Edition" but a BOOK CLUB PRINTING. The volume is lightly bumped on the spine ends, there is some rubbing to thre top edge stain, and the text leves are gently toned. The unpriced dust jacket, protected in a sleeve, is edge worn to include shallow chips, abrasions, wrinkles, and closed tears, and there is a long diagonal crease on the rear panel.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover rubbed with edgewear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Prior owner name on fep. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early printing. Previous owner name with date of March 1940 to front paste down and front flap of jacket. Price-clipped. Chipping to spine ends and ends of flap folds of jacket.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard.. Native Son.. Harper & Brothers,, NY:, 1940.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book club edition. Very good in a very good (moderate edge wear with a few small chips, age toning) dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Richard Floethe.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good broadart dust jacket shows edgewear. A one-owner book never been outside on its own. Name on FFEP.
Seller: ProPen, Arcata, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$15.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pp.: ix, 359. Gilt titles to sp. Dark gray cloth bds. T.e. blue. Deckle fore-edge. BMOC publisher's blurb, slipped-in. Some fx-ing, f.p.d.p. Interior leaves are clean and tight. Richard Wright's acclaimed novel of Black life in America. A clean copy.
Seller: Brillig's Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son: A Novel. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: (B-P, so not a First) Sturdy book, dark gray cloth, yellow lettering fine with black background at spine top, a birthday note and bookplate inside front cover, glue remnant for bookplate on first front end paper, 359 lightly browned pages. DJ price-clipped, heavy paper with gray background, a color-illustration of man standing near stoop and garbage can on city street at center front, black lettering, spine very slightly browned. DJ has very slight surface wear spots to front bookfold edge, tiny nick at top front edge near spine, very slight wear to spine right bookfold, wide nicks at spine corners, slight surface wear to spine to and bottom edges. Fair DJ/Fine book.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$16.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 359 pp. 5 5/8 x 8 1/4. Gray cloth covered boards, stamped in dark blue and gold on spine. No dj. Title on spine somewhat scuffed. Top portion of ffep torn away.
Seller: Blue Awning Books, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$17.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Grey cloth bound book, has a little fraying on the binding, pages are in great condition.
Seller: Friends of the Waynesboro Library, Waynesboro, MS, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Xi, 359 Pp. Blue Grey Cloth, Spine Lettered In Gilt On Black, Blue Topstain, Title Page Printed In Black And Red, Copyright Page With First Edition Stated And Code "A-P". Some Wear, Pinpoint Fray At Lower Front Tip. Thin Line Of Dampstaining To Lower Foredge Of First 50 Pages.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1940.
Price: US$17.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's full cloth, gilt lettering on black panel and gilt decoration on spine, TEG (blue), fore-edge deckle. 8vo. 359 pp. Gift inscription on ffep, otherwise unmarked. Light wear at head and heel of the spine, shelf-wear along edges and corners, else fine. Tight and square with strong hinges. VERY GOOD. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1940.
Price: US$17.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full-bound gray cloth, gilt titles on black spine stampings, top edge stain gray, deckle edges; minor wear at spine ends, tiny tear in cloth at spine head, shallow ding top edge front board, dust jacket has wear and chipping at extremities, short closed tear bottom edge front panel, short tear with small chip and crinkling top edge rear panel, vertical crease and a couple of faint spots to spine, mild tanning to spine, in protective Mylar covers, tight, square, clean throughout.
Seller: HAVE BOOKS - WILL SELL, Wind Lake, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Description: pp. li, 359, (8)[Comment]. Title page printed in red and black. Uncut. 8vo. Original full gray cloth binding. Crisp copy. First Edition? BLKAM 1/2. 0.0
Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harpers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/VG Protected jacket is has edge wear and a small piece missing at the top of the spine. Even though "First Edition" is stated, this is the BMC edition. Still, a very nice reading copy with a good jacket, clean, unmarked pages, and a straight spine.
Seller: Bill's Books, Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, NY, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NYC; Harper & Brothers, 1940. Stated first edition (actually a Book Club edition), NF/VG. Book has light wear to spine ends, previous owner name & date, in ink, on FFE. DJ has wear & small closed tears to spine ends, wear & chipping to corners, edge wear, darkening to spine (not affecting letters), no price on front flap. A nice copy of this classic of early Black American literature. Great story, 359 pp.
Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Novel. First edition stated. Covers nice, spine ends bumped, spine has small spots, tips worn. Owner name inside the front cover, otherwise the interior is clean and tight, pages toned.
Seller: R Bryan Old Books, Sewell, NJ, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. (Harper & Brothers), (NY), 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book Club Edition. Very Good in Good (edge-worn, sun-faded) DJ.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. (Harper & Brothers), (NY), 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book Club Edition. Very Good, lacking the dustjacket.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers Publishers, NY, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xi. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. 359pp. Blue top edges. Blue cloth boards with faded black and gilt title on spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper and Brothers, Boston, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Written by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, this is the story of the life and death of Bigger, a Negro youth. It contains 359 pages, preceded by an introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The condition is very good. The pages are clean and free of tears and folds. There is a signed book plate on the inside front cover but no other writing. The binding is tight. The gray cloth cover has some slight soiling. The gold and black title and author on the spine are peeling so it is not completely legible. The corners show some wear.
Seller: Grandma Gerene's Bookshop, Mt. Vernon, WA, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Brothers January 1940, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: Two 1-inch tears at top of front cover. Otherwise in good condition. Copyright page states 'Copyright renewed 1968' but no mention of what edition this is otherwise.
Seller: Open Books West Loop, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Brothers 4th edtion so stated January 1940, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description:
Seller: Open Books West Loop, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper and Brothers, NY, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: 359 pgs., 8vo. A solid binding, with the red seal, date, and title on Title Page. No writing inside; has a private bookplate on pastedown, and light outline of a cup-stain on front cover. Gray cloth and top-stain. Spine ends are medium shelf-worn. Good used condition, no dust jacket.
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: Reprint. 359 p. Tan cloth covered boards. Rust brown title box, spine; black titles. Stamped edge border. DJ in aqua, yellow; dark blue titles. Dark red top page edges. Less common edition, African American Novel: Urban family member Bigger is chauffeur to a wealthy suburban white philanthropist, some of whose profits originate on the backs of those who live in Chicago's tenements. Bigger is headed for jail from the first chapter. Wright prefaces the novel with "How 'Bigger' was Born", pp. xiii-li (new material, this edition). This reprint edition stops at p. 359. The Contents offer "Some Notable Comments on 'Native Son'" beginning page 361; there are no pages removed. The DJ spine and front however is decorated by streaming review commentary. Good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Half-inch cloth edge tear to top right, book. Corner bump. Minor sun-fade at spine edges. Closed tears to jacket. Complete and Unabridged. "Author's Edition". No price listed. 1 0.0
Seller: Hedgehog's Whimsey BOOKS etc., Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st ed, 2nd prtg,
Seller: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 359 numbered pp; HB. Second state binding. Pages: clean, bright, tight, gray topstain, f.e. deckled; PO info inked and stamped to ffep. Cover: gray, gilt chains and titles spine; modest shelfwear, extrems somewhat worn, head worn through in several small areas.
Seller: Independent Books, Long Beach, WA, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. NATIVE SON. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Second printing with Harper code 'B-P' on copyright page. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers very clean, minor shelf wear. Binding tight. PO's name dated 1940 on ffep. Text unmarked. DJ is GOOD+ ; clean, edges quite worn and chipped. Fic. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 359pp, octavo, HC with jacket, blue boards with gilt titles on spine, tight binding, flat and unmarked pages, owner's stamp on pastedown, soiled ffep, color of top page edges has faded, jacket has torn corners, clipped flaps and general wear, cover image and text are all clear.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. NATIVE SON. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo; li, 359 pages, variant tan cloth, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, a bit cocked The Harper Code on the copyright page indicates that this text was done in 1947. Added to this edition is the unabridged text of Richard Wright's 1940 article, "How 'Bigger' Was Born", which appeared in the 'Saturday Review of Literature" in June 1, 1940. . See 2012 exhibition at the Library of Congress: "Books That Shaped America".
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 359p. A grey-blue cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Spine tanned and lightly stained; otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Vintage edition of this novel about poor blacks in South Chicago.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$21.00 + shipping
Description: Dark gray cover with black & gold lettering & decorations on spine. Wear around edges and corners, lettering on spine is rubbed and very faded. Binding is tight. A-P Harpers mark on copyright page, 1940 on title page is in red.
Seller: Popeks Used and Rare Books, IOBA, Oneonta, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$21.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First line: "An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room." Book is in good condition with a crease to the first few pages, wear and soil; jacket is in fair condition with edgewear, browned spine, some chipping and closed tears, rubbing, wear, and soil. 359 pages, 8 x 6.
Seller: Popeks Used and Rare Books, IOBA, Oneonta, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$21.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This book is in near fine condition and has not been opened. The boards are gray with lettering and designs on gold on the spine. Stated "First Edition" A-P, copyright renewed 1968 by Ellen Wright. The title page lists 1940 as the publishing date. The dust jacket is in very good condition with a closed tear at the bottom edge of the front flap. The jacket is in new mylar. A Book-of-the-Month Club Review is included. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: funyettabooks, Bloomington, MN, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$21.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early reprint (B-P code). No jacket. ink name on front paste-down endpaper, minor pencil marginalia. 1940 Hard Cover. xi, 359 pp. 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.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper and Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4th edition. No jacket. Cold clean text with no writing or markings. Some light staining inside boards.(see photos)
Seller: Jax Beach Books, Jacksonville Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$22.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wright's story of Bigger Thomas is one of the landmarks of African-American literature; Book of the Month Club printing of the First Edition, second state; grey boards slightly edgeworn; text edges soiled; corner-clipped grey dustjacket, spine darkened, some edgewear.
Seller: H. W. Gumaer, Bookseller, Canandaigua, NY, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son By Richard Wright Hardback 1940. (Harper & Brothers), 1940.
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second Printing No DJ No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper and Brothers. First American edition, New York, 1940.
Price: US$23.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The author's first book. Grey cloth, second binding. Original grey cloth. Crown and base of spine scuffed. Internally clean. Very good. No dustwrapper.
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1940, 1940.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hard Cover. 1st Ed. 5.5x8.5. gray with gold ltg. on black strip- owner's name- 359 pgs. Size: 5.5"x8.5"
Seller: Popeks Used and Rare Books, IOBA, Oneonta, NY, U.S.A.
by Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$24.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Native Son by Richard Wright Hardcover no DJ: 1940: 4tH Edition. Published by Harper & Brothers, gray cloth with black and gilt spine details; 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, 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. "some cloth wear, some spine bleaching etc, inside is clean tight and very good"
Seller: Sheapast Art and Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard.. NATIVE SON.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. dj, 1940.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover - Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition). His classic novel, one of the most important African American literary works of the 20th century. Title page in red and black, first edition stated on copyright page, but not a first. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. xii, 359 pp. Very good in gray cloth with black panels and gilt lettering on the spine (some spine slant, rubbing to the spine) in a fair only dust jacket missing approx 2 inches at the top of the spine, other chips and edgewear)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This copy has very little corner bumping, light edge wear. Upper edge of the textblock is tinted dark blue. Hinges and gutters are solid, light shadowing of endpapers. Interior text ahs slightly yellowed with age. Book plate center of front paste-down, otherwise unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper, New York, 1940.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Second binding. 8vo. Grey cloth stamped in black and gilt. xi, 359 pages. Top page edges stained grey. Clean. Bright. Tight. no jacket. Fine condition.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper, New York, 1940.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Second binding. 8vo. Grey cloth stamped in black and gilt. xi, 359 pages. Top page edges stained grey. Clean. Bright. Tight. no jacket. Fine condition.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xi. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. 359pp. Blue top edges. Blue cloth boards with faded black and gilt title on spine. Rubbed. Pictorial Chipped and rubbed Dust Jacket repaired. Po's names on f.f.p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xi. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. 359pp. Blue top edges. Blue cloth boards with faded black and gilt title on spine. Rubbed. Pictorial Chipped and rubbed Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harpers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previous owner's book plate on front paste down. Wright's classic story of life in the "most segregated city in America" Chicago, in the early 20th century.This outstanding novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black American youth living in utter poverty. Bigger lived in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. While not apologizing for Bigger's crimes, Richard Wright portrays a systemic inevitability behind them. Bigger's lawyer makes the case that there is no escape from this destiny for his client or any other black American, since they are the necessary product of the society that formed them and told them since birth who exactly they were supposed to be. "No American Negro exists," James Baldwin once wrote, "who does not have his private Bigger Thomas living in his skull." Frantz Fanon discusses this feeling in his 1952 essay "L'Expérience Vécue du Noir", or "The Fact of Blackness". "In the end," writes Fanon, "Bigger Thomas acts. To put an end to his tension, he acts, he responds to the world's anticipation." Wright based aspects of the novel on the 1938 arrest and trial of Robert Nixon, executed in 1939 following a series of "brick bat murders" in Los Angeles and Chicago. Wright's protest novel was an immediate best-seller, selling 250,000 hardcover copies within three weeks of its publication by the Book-of-the-Month Club on March 1, 1940. It was one of the earliest successful attempts to explain the racial divide in America in terms of the social conditions imposed on African-Americans by the dominant white society. It also made Wright the wealthiest black writer of his time and established him as a spokesperson for African-American issues, and the "father of Black American literature." As Irving Howe said in his 1963 essay "Black Boys and Native Sons," "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. No matter how much qualifying the book might later need, it made impossible a repetition of the old lies . [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear, and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture." The novel's treatment of Bigger and his motivations is an example of literary naturalism. First Edition A-P Second State binding. Along with Ellison's Invisible Man and Baldwin's Go Tell It On the Mountain, one of the indisputable mid-century classics of African-American literature.
Seller: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Grey cloth with gilt spine titles and decoration in black title window; cloth very good with light edgewear, points of rubbing to spine ends and fore-edge corners. Lacking the jacket. Spine square. Binding sound. Prior owner's name inked to FFEP. Interior else clean, pages toned, text unmarked.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard.. Native Son.. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: xi, 359 pp. 8vo, original cloth. First edition; second binding. Slight bumping to the lower corners; otherwise near fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York / London, 1940.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated First Edition with A-P on the copyright page, no price on dj flap, gray cloth with gilt titles on spine in black box, so this is a Book Club edition. Nice clean unmarked copy. Dust jacket has two short edge tears, some rubbing at the fore-edge folds, tiny chips at the corners, presents well in a new protective mylar sleeve.
Seller: The Book Shelf, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1940.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: No American Negro exists
Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harpers, 1940.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very early printing of Wrights' classic. 1940, Harpers code BP, which indicates February, the first was January. Gray cloth. Binding tight, corners slightly bumped, hinges good, text clean and unmarked, light scuffs on blank rear end paper. No jacket. Shelf W
Seller: Atlantic Books, Mars Hill, NC, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fourth edition, later printing. Pages lightly age-toned, edges lightly rubbed, very good lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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 with the true first edition because it includes a first edition statement and publisher's code ("A-P"), but the bindings are completely different (the true first edition has the title and author in white and red color blocks on the cover AND spine).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard.. Native Son.. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: xi, 359 pp. 8vo, original cloth. First edition; second binding. Ink ownership signature; light use to cloth; slightly shaken.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. New York: Harper, 1940, 1940.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: beat book shop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York & London, 1940.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (Covers and Text are clean, neat and tight)
Seller: G.M. Isaac Books, Winston-Salem, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Xi, 359 Pp. Second Binding Of Blue Grey Cloth, Spine Lettered In Gilt On Black, Blue Topstain, Title Page Printed In Black And Red, Copyright Page With First Edition Stated And Code "A-P". Slight Usage, Gilt Brilliant. Former Owner's Name Dated 1940 In Holyoke Ma.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$31.20 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bound in full gray cloth, stamped in navy and gold in matching, illustrated dust jacket. This is an early reprint edition of this important novel, in a different format and binding than the first edition. The book is tight and clean, as is the dust jacket with no discernible flaws. 359 pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son -. Harper Publishing -, 1940.
Price: US$31.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover/pub.1940/Fair condition/359 pages - A novel of a troubled young man. [HA637982]
Seller: "Pursuit of Happiness" Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$34.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "First Edition" stated, Harper's code of A-P. Price-clipped jacket shows modest chipping to head and heel of spine. Jacket shows the second-state art of youth in gray suit leaning against front of building, and the gray cloth (not blue) binding is also commonly identified as the "second state" of the first printing. Priced accordingly, here reduced from $40.
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair hardcover with no writing visible,inside in good condition,stated 1st. edition with A-P under 1st.edition,chance to own a real American classic,we are professional booksellers,100% refund,T793
Seller: born again books, henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harpers, 1940.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book is stated as a first edition with the letters A-P notated under the words "first edition". The binding is on boards covered with dark grey cloth with gold letters on back bandground on the spine. This book was a huge hit of its times, even the BOMC taking it (their first black author chosen for their club). The book is in great shape and with a jacket would be quite a value.
Seller: Northmont Books and Stamps, Farmington Hills., MI, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harpers, 1940.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: As stated first edition with A-P under the notation. It is in good conditon with a jacket from a book club edition.
Seller: Northmont Books and Stamps, Farmington Hills., MI, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper and Brothers, NEW YORK, 1940.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Sturdy, vintage copy with tiny owner's name and address label inside, covered with a fine facsimile jacket. Lettering on spine is rubbed away.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Reprint. About near fine with light general wear to the boards and a couple spots on the pastedown, lacking the dustwrapper. The book club is often confused with the true first edition because it includes a first edition statement and publisher's code ("A-P"), but the bindings are completely different (the true first edition has the title and author in white and red color blocks on the cover AND spine). A nice copy of one of the indisputable mid-century classics of African-American literature.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book club edition. Octavo. 359pp. Very good or better with edgewear and ink owner name on front flyleaf in about very good dust jacket with moderate tears, chips and creases and internal tape repairs to the spine. The book club is often confused with the true first edition because it includes a first edition statement and publisher's code ("A-P"), but the bindings are completely different (the true first edition has the title and author in white and red color blocks on the cover AND spine).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. HARPERS 1940 A-P, 1940.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Very good condition. First edition slight shelf wear on top and bottom of spine. pages and text are clean. No markings DATE PUBLISHED: 1940 A-P EDITION: STATED FIRST 359
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 359p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Owner's bookplate inside front cover; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is lightly edgeworn. Vintage printing of this novel by African-American author Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908-1960).
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Description: Dark gray cover with black & gold lettering & decorations on spine. Wear and soil around edges and corners. Binding is tight. A-P Harpers mark on copyright page, 1940 on title page is in red.
Seller: Popeks Used and Rare Books, IOBA, Oneonta, NY, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$39.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4th edition. No jacket. Bookplate on flyleaf. No markings on text. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri.
Seller: Archives Books inc., Edmond, OK, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son Richard Wright. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1940 Harper & Brothers hard cover - stated First Edition A-P - no dust jacket - gray-blue texture to cover - Gold letters against black background - number inside front cover - otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean - page edge clean - a very nice collectible
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son Richard Wright. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: facsimile of the original first edition - published by the First Edition Library - with slipcase - green dust jacket with black text against yellow background - cove charcoal with orange text against gray block and black text against orange block - slight smudge on cover - otherwise a fine clean like new collectible with like new dust jacket and slipcase - enjoy
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. First edition, Book Club Edition. With "A-P" below the edition statement on the copyright page. Very good in grey cloth-covered board and very good dust jacket. Laid in is a commentary on the novel issued by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Small tear on dj, shelf wear.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 359pp. Very good/good. Jacket age toned and edgeworn, with some small edge chips and old tape mends at corners; ownership signature on front pastedown. Just the book club edition, but tight and attractive.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book club edition. Octavo. 359pp. Near fine with touch of edgewear in very good dust jacket with wear at the corners, and some chipping and crease at the crown. The book club is often confused with the true first edition because it includes a first edition statement and publisher's code ("A-P"), but the bindings are completely different (the true first edition has the title and author in white and red color blocks on the cover AND spine).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$40.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First editiion stated on copyright page with code A - P and 1940 shown on title page. Second state binding with gray cloth and black and gold stamping to spine. Jacket has some small chips and moderate edgewear. Boards spine is worn and slightly rubbed. Front free endpaper is missing. It was a blank page preceding the half title page. It was torn out fairly neatly. Jacket is not the first edition jacket and appears to have been married later. Front panel of jacket has black man starding against a wall near a short outdoor staircase to a apt. It has a greenish brown background color. Rear panel has long blurb from the Book of the Month club news. No price shown on jacket but all 4 corners of jacket flaps are angled. No stamping of any type to rear board. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper and Brothers, NY, 1940.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated first edition, but this is the book club edition since it's in grey cloth. Jacket is price-clipped, with some chipping to the extremities.
Seller: Bibliolio Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Bros, New York, 1940.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book Club Edition. Very good in grey cloth-covered board and very good dust jacket. Laid in is a commentary on the novel issued by the Book-of-the-Month Club. No price on the dust jacket. Stated "first edition".
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 359pp. Gray/blue cloth boards, gilt titles on black background on spine. Binding tight, spine straight, corners solid. Pages evenly toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Olive dust jacket has wear to spine ends and corners, and an illustration on the front panel. Book of the Month Club news blurb on back panel. 1st Book Club Edition. Wright's story of Bigger Thomas remains a powerful and important American novel.
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper, New York, 1940.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Wright's classic story of life in the "most segregated city in America" Chicago, in the early 20th century.This outstanding novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black American youth living in utter poverty. Bigger lived in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. While not apologizing for Bigger's crimes, Richard Wright portrays a systemic inevitability behind them. Bigger's lawyer makes the case that there is no escape from this destiny for his client or any other black American, since they are the necessary product of the society that formed them and told them since birth who exactly they were supposed to be. "No American Negro exists," James Baldwin once wrote, "who does not have his private Bigger Thomas living in his skull." Frantz Fanon discusses this feeling in his 1952 essay "L'Expérience Vécue du Noir", or "The Fact of Blackness". "In the end," writes Fanon, "Bigger Thomas acts. To put an end to his tension, he acts, he responds to the world's anticipation." Wright based aspects of the novel on the 1938 arrest and trial of Robert Nixon, executed in 1939 following a series of "brick bat murders" in Los Angeles and Chicago. Wright's protest novel was an immediate best-seller, selling 250,000 hardcover copies within three weeks of its publication by the Book-of-the-Month Club on March 1, 1940. It was one of the earliest successful attempts to explain the racial divide in America in terms of the social conditions imposed on African-Americans by the dominant white society. It also made Wright the wealthiest black writer of his time and established him as a spokesperson for African-American issues, and the "father of Black American literature." As Irving Howe said in his 1963 essay "Black Boys and Native Sons," "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. No matter how much qualifying the book might later need, it made impossible a repetition of the old lies . [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear, and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture." The novel's treatment of Bigger and his motivations is an example of literary naturalism. First Edition A-P Second State binding. Along with Ellison's Invisible Man and Baldwin's Go Tell It On the Mountain, one of the indisputable mid-century classics of African-American literature. Book has gray cover and good condition. Back strip has darkened and is no longer readable. Spine ends are bumped, but corners are straight and pointed. Text block is tight and complete with no marks or mars. All and all a decent copy of this important book.
Seller: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book club edition. Octavo. 359pp. Near fine with touch of edgewear in about near fine dust jacket wit moderate edgewear includings nicks, creases and tears, mostly at the spine ends. The book club is often confused with the true first edition because it includes a first edition statement and publisher's code ("A-P"), but the bindings are completely different (the true first edition has the title and author in white and red color blocks on the cover AND spine).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Fine in black cloth covered boards with orange and black text on gray and red text blocks on the spine and the same on the front board. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/4". In a fine, facsimile, unclipped dust jacket with the "FEL" logo on the rear flap. Both the book and its dust jacket are contained within a near fine slip case covered with light gray cloth with reproductions of the front and rear panels of the dust jacket on the panels of the slip case which has a tiny dent at the lower corner of the case. 359 pages of text. This is the First Edition Library's exact (facsimile) reproduction of the first edition of the book to include all the issue points that were present in the original first printing. Facsimile First Edition Library Reprint.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New Yokr, 1940.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book-of-the-Month Club, with the stated "First Edition" and "A-P" code to the copyright page. Second state bound in gray cloth with gilt over black, titles to the spine and grey topstain. Very gently read. Interior is clean, unmarked and free of any plates. Boards are gently rubbed and bumped to extremities with some very light discolouration to show. Unpaginated fore-edge. Small 1cm x 1cm stain to the top edge.
Seller: Bailey Books, St.Albert, AB, Canada
WRIGHT, Richard.. Native Son.. New York, Harper & Brothers 1940., 1940.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Second issue (of the first edition). Hardcover. Fine in very good dustjacket slightly darkened on the spine. According to Ahearn's " Collected Books", this is the second of the two cloth binding issues of the first edition, the first done in dark-blue cloth and this, the second, done in grey cloth. This copy (with the "first edition" designation, and correct Harper code "A-P", signifying January, 1940) carries a Book-of-the-Month jacket, with no price on the flap. A nice tight, clean copy of an American literary highlight.
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
Richard Wright. Native Son (1968 Slipcase Facsimile Edition). Harper Brothers January 1940, 1940.
Price: US$45.01 + shipping
Description: This is the copyright renewed edition (1968) with the simple brown dust jacket. Dust jacket has a small tear on the back cover. Book is in good condition with tight spine.
Seller: R Bookmark, Youngtown, AZ, U.S.A.
RICHARD WRIGHT. NATIVE SON By RICHARD WRIGHT 1940 Fourth Edition. HARPER & BROTHERS, NY, 1940.
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: TITLE: NATIVE SON By RICHARD WRIGHT 1940 Fourth Edition AUTHOR: RICHARD WRIGHT PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: HARPER & BROTHERS, NY 1940 EDITION: Reprint Edition with 'Fourth Edition' on copyright page CATEGORY: Ethnic, Mystery, Rare BINDING/COVER: Hardback without dust jacket COLOR: Off Dark Gray CONDITION: The book is without a dust jacket. The outside is in a little rough condition; The cloth at the top edge of the spine has a chip (see photo); there is heavy scuffing into the side edges; there is minor old white paint on the upper side edges; the book looks dark and used on the outside. There is an inscription from a fraternity at University of Alabama on the first front free endpaper. Book is without other marks or writings, pages are fairly clean and book is tight and sturdy. All the pages are present in book. SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 359 pages. Fair/None dust jacket condition. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: VERY POWERFUL NOVEL WRITTEN BY AN AFRICAN AMERICAN. THE BOOK WAS MADE INTO A MOVIE IN WHICH OPRA WINFREY WAS ONE OF THE LEADING CHARACTERS. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, book(s) will ship immediately to customer (it's on the way), you are welcomed to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCodePrc 26 E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 007430
Seller: ViewFair Books, Live Oak, FL, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.
Price: US$47.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1940. 1st Printing. Stated 'First Editon A-P'. In the second binding of gray cloth. Nice Firm Clean copy ! No handwriting, no markings. Light general wear. 359 pages. 7284
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$47.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 359pp Slight wear to extremities, corners bumped. Lettering on backstrip faded. Name in ink on inside front cover.
Seller: Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Protected jacket is a first edition replica and is in as new condition, price of $2.50 intact, book itself is an authentic first edition in very good condition, with one significant flaw, the binding is exposed between the last two pages of the text (pp. 358-359) and needs to be repaired. Binding straight, pages clean and unmarked. First Edition stated on copyright page. Comes in a lovely box that was part of the replica first edition.
Seller: Bill's Books, Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Description: Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), uncut, xi + 359 pp. The dust jacket is olive green; the cloth binding is blue, with gilt chain links illustrating the upper quarter of the spine, a black spine label, and gilt letters. Very Good, with former-owner inscription to ffep and tanning to endpapers; in a Good+, myalr protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: On this remarkable novel Henry Seidel Canby makes the following comment: This powerful and sensational novel is very difficult to describe so as to convey its real prupse and its real strength. But it is important to describe it accurately, because it is certainly the finest novel as yet written by an American Nego -- not that it was chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club just because it was written by a Negro. It would have been chosen for its deep excitement and intense interest whether written by white, yellow, or black. Yet, nevertheless, this is a novel which only a Negro could have written; whose theme is the mind of the Negro we see every day; whose emotion is the emotion of that native born American under the stress of a social situation difficult in the extreme; whose point and purpose are not race war or propaganda of any kind, but to show how a "bad nigger" is amde from human material that might have become something very different. Superficially, Native Son is a crime story, adventurous, exciting, often terrible -- with two murders, a chase and a gun fight over the roofs of Chicao, a trial, and what might have been, but was not, a rape. It is the old story of a man hunted down by society. But the reader will get through only a few chapters before h e realizes that there is something different in this story. Bigger -- and we all know Bigger -- is no persecuted black saint. His family is a good tenement family, as tenement families go; but he is a bad actor from the first. He is mean; he is a coward; he is on occasion liar, thief, and bully. There is no sentimentalism in the writer who created Bigger, and made him chauffeur in the family of a wealthy philanthropist who spent some of the money wrung from Negro tenements on benefits for the race. Bigger is headed toward jail from the first chapter. When Mary Dalton, the flighty daughter of the philanthropist, asks Bigger to help along her intrigue with her Communist lover (also a negrophile), he has no compunctions. But he did not mean to kill her, he did not want to kill her, though he hated patronizing whites. Had her blind mother not come in at the fatal moement, the girl would have slept off her drunkeness, and Bigger would never have got beyond petty crime. With a skill which any master of the detective story might envy, Mr. Wright builds his book on the inevitable and terrifying results of an unpremeditated killing; the burning of the body; the false accusations; the murder of Bigger's Negro girl friend, lest she implicate him; the capture; the trial in which Mr. Max, the defending lawyer, pleads unsuccessfully the cause of a race driven toward crime, against a district attorney needing notoriety for his next election. And finally comes Bigger's confession -- not of the murder which was not a murder, and of the rape which was not a rape, but of the obscure inarticulate causes which made him hate, and made him try to make up for his sense of inferiority by aggressive acts against the society in which he lived. Literature, Americana. TAS
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper and Brothers; New York and London, 1940.
Price: US$49.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1940 First Edition. Grey buckram hardback cover. Faded embossed title on spine. Deckled Edges. Name of prior owner on inside front page. Otherwise excellent condition! Language: eng
Seller: Best Books And Antiques, Chandler, TX, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper and Brothers NY, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Fine book with worn DJ.book is tight and unmarked.jacket is worn with some missing chips and cracks in folds, some open tearing A-P First edition stated on copyright page.359 pages topstain blue grey.spine blue grey with Author/Titile and Publisher imprint
Seller: Bob Lemkowitz , rhinebeck, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Bro, New York, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition. Gray cloth covers, some minor edge wear, corner wear to the boards. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, RICHARD. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book Club Edition. Often mistaken for the first edition in the second state binding, this BOMC version was issued in the identical binding (with first edition identification and A-P code on copyright page) and in the same second state dustjacket but without price on front flap. Contemporary owner name on front endpaper, else near fine in very good or better dustjacket with small abrasion at lower spine edge, minor wear and rubbing at extremities.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper& Brothers, 1940, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Very Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Apparent facsimile from 1940 (B-R copyright). Beautiful jacket. Small chip to the crown. Original blue boards in first issue jacket.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper and Brothers, NY, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 359 pgs., 8vo. A solid binding, with the red seal, date, and title on Title Page. No writing inside; Gray cloth, clean outside and inside, bright spine titles. Jacket does not show a price, has small piece missing bottom outside of front cover, also spine chips and 1" tear on back of jacket, touching the first line of Henry Seidel Canby review block. We have a 2nd copy: Crease down spine-cloth, light stains both covers, Bookplate on pastedown and review pasted to fly, for $35.00 Very good condition in very good-minus dust jacket.
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper and Brothers, NEW YORK, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Early vintage printing, covered in a bright facsimile dust jacket. A terrific copy, crisp, clean and unmarked. .
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First book club edition, with the title, author and publisher in gilt on the spine ONLY. Very good with binding cocked and moderate wear at the edges, lacking the dustwrapper. The book club edition is often confused with the true first edition because it includes a first edition statement and publisher's code ("A-P"), but the bindings is completely different (the true first edition has the title and author in white and red color blocks on the cover AND spine). A nice copy of one of the indisputable mid-century classics of African-American literature.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$50.60 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Lightly Soiled; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: On this remarkable novel Henry Seidel Canby makes the following comment: "This powerful and sensational novel is very difficult to describe so as to convey its real purpose and its real strength. But it is important to describe it accurately, because it is certainly the finest novel as yet written by an American Negro - not that it was chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club just because it was written by a Negro. It would have been chosen for its deep excitement and intense interest whether written by white, yellow, or black. Yet, nevertheless, this is a novel which only a Negro could have written; whose theme is the mind of the Negro we see every day; whose emotion is the emotion of that native born American under the stress of a social situation difficult in the extreme; whose point and purpose are not race war or propaganda of any kind, but to show how a "bad nigger" is made from human material that might have become something very different. Superficially, Native Son is a crime story, adventurous, exciting, often terrible - with two murders, a chase and a gun fight over the roofs of Chicago, a trial, and what might have been, but was not, a rape. It is the old story of a man hunted down by society. But the reader will get through only a few chapters before he realizes that there is something different in this story. Bigger - and we all know Bigger - is no persecuted black saint. His family is a good tenement family, as tenement families go; but he is a bad actor from the first. He is mean; he is a coward; he is on occasion liar, thief, and bully. There is no sentimentalism in the writer who created Bigger, and made him chauffeur in the family of a wealthy philanthropist who spent some of the money wrung from Negro tenements on benefits for the race. Bigger is headed toward jail from the first chapter. When Mary Dalton, the flighty daughter of the philanthropist, asks Bigger to help along her intrigue with her Communist lover (also a negrophile), he has no compunctions. But he did not mean to kill her, he did not want to kill her, though she hated patronizing whites. Had her blind mother not come in at the fatal moment, the girl would have slept off her drunkenness, and Bigger would never have got beyond petty crime. With a skill which any master of the detective story might envy, Mr. Wright builds his book on the inevitable and terrifying results of an unpremeditated killing; the burning of the body; the false accusations; the murder of Bigger's Negro girl friend, lest she implicate him; the capture; the trial in which Mr. Max, the defending lawyer, pleads unsuccessfully the cause of a race driven toward crime, against a district attorney needing notoriety for his next election. And finally comes Bigger's confession - not of the murder which was not a murder, and of the rape which was not a rape, but of the obscure inarticulate causes which made him hate, and made him try to make up for his sense of inferiority by aggressive acts against the society in which he lived. All this highly complicated story is handled with competence by Mr. Wright in a swift narrative style proceeding by staccato dialogue and with rapidly mounting suspense. The characters, too, are fully realized. There is a deadly satire in the portraits of the young radicals - Mary who is killed, and Jan, the Communist, who chooses Bigger to work on, not realizing that this kind of political pity is more offensive to a Negro than color prejudice. And the mob itself is a character, stirred up by sensational newspapers, getting blood-thirsty, wanting to lynch - the mob whose threatening roar is always in the background of the book and of the Negro's mind. Yet even in its characters this is not a vindictive book. Bigger dies without hate for anything, except the obscure circumstances which compelled .
Seller: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, USA, 1940.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Book of the Month Club EDITION, 1st BOMC PRINTING. On copyright page, "First Edition. A-P." Folded into the book is a small Book of the Month pamphlet on the importance of the book. This copy is NEAR FINE; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked; binding is tight but edges show age. The jacket is also near fine: intact, including color and design, but wear on corner edges, top and bottom spine, and some wear back cover edges. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. On foreign sales, because of the heavy weight of this book, we have to charge extra for shipping: however, we will only charge the difference between our regular shipping rate and the extra charge that the U.S.Post Office asks to ship the book. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES
Seller: NightsendBooks, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$55.50 + shipping
Description: xi, 359p., hardcover, stated first edition but actually the Book Club printing, second state binding, very good in a mildly shelfworn dust jacket.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper, NY, 1940.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. xi, 359. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Owner's bookplate on pastedown, another's name on flyleaf. VG. A novel.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper. New York., 1940.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG-/VG. Edges badly worn. Book club Edition. 359 pp.
Seller: Limestone Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$63.00 + shipping
Description: First edition stated with codes A - P on copyright page. Pretty nice copy. Former owner's bookplate on first pastedown. Background coloring on binding starting to disipate near title. Gray cloth boards with gold lettering over dark blue background. Gray-Blue topstain to top page edges. Crimping at spine ends. Tight and square. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First edition. Pages top stained. Fine grey cloth, gold chains on spine, gold on black titles. 359 pp. Two-color title page. Writing on end papers, previous owner bookplate and another label. Hinges cracked. In new FACSIMILE dust jacket appropriate for printing. Good in new dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
RICHARD WRIGHT. NATIVE SON. HARPER'S AND BROTHER'S PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK, NY, 1940.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: (5) + ix - xi + (1) + 3 -359 PAGES. THIS IS A BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB EDITION EVEN THOUGH THE STATEMENT "FIRST EDITION AND A-P" ARE PRINTED ON THE COPYRIGHT PAGE. THERE IS NO PRICE ON THE DUST JACKET. THERE IS A SMALL 1/2" CLOSED TEAR OF THE TOP OF THE REAR OF THE DUST JACKET THAT OTHERWISE WOULD BE IN FINE CONDITION. THE DUST JACKET IS IN A PROTECTIVE MYLAR WRAPPER. THIS ISA VERY CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY OF A CLASSIC BLACK NOVEL BY RIGHARD WRIGHT. Size: 5 1/2" X 8 1/4"
Seller: Aah Rare Chicago, Glenview, IL, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 359 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine brown with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Mild rubbing to edges, corners, and hinges of dust jacket. Light chipping and tearing to edges, corners, and head and tail of spine. Sunning and some scuffing to spine. Minor edge wear to boards. Top edge of textblock dyed black. Fore edge deckled. Previous owner's bookplate and inscription on front free endpaper. Age toning throughout. Shelved under the Front Counter. 1376482. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Bros, New York & London, 1940.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York & London: Harper & Bros, 1940. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition (stated, codeA-P), in the Second Issue binding of dark gray cloth with titling in black and gilt on the spine. Clean text; xi, 359 pages. One corner has a tiny bump, else a Fine copy.The dustjacket is also 2nd issue, with the added illustration of Bigger leaning against a stoop. Spine slightly darkened; showing edgewear, with chipping along the margins. In an archival plastic protector. An attractive copy of this 20th Century literary high-spot. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
[AFRICAN AMERICANA] WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$66.00 + shipping
Description: Reprint, issued by the Book-of-the-Month Club, with "First Edition" and "A-P" code on copyright page (see Ahearn). Octavo (21cm); second binding in gray cloth, blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine; gray topstain; dustjacket; xii,359,[1]pp. Base of spine a bit nudged, lower rear board corner gently tapped (though still sharp), else Near Fine. Dustjacket is gently spine-sunned, showing modest external wear, shallow losses to spine ends, several nicks and tears, and a tiny puncture to upper front panel; just Very Good. Attractive copy of Wright's first novel, which catapulted him into national fame. "The book is a shattering portrait of Bigger Thomas, the protagonist, who is a product of racism and oppression. The novel takes its readers through treacherous corridors of violence and retribution as it reflects much of the unrest in the American racial system" (BLOCKSON 76). "Bigger, hemmed in by the restrictions of white-dominated Chicago, commits a series of crimes, finding in them the only positive self-expression of his life" (COAN, p.194). While Wright provides no apologies for his protagonist's crimes, he portrays quite succinctly the systemic inevitability behind them. A stage version of the novel, co-written with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paul Green, was written in 1941, and Wright would go on to star as Bigger in Pierre Chenal's 1951 film adaptation of the novel. A cornerstone work of 20th century African American literature. HANNA 3906; RIDEOUT, p.298.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1940.
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, stated " FIRST EDITION A - P " on the copyright page . Book has the true first issue dark blue covers with red and gray title blocks on the spine and front cover. Shelfwear to bottom of boards and spine ends. FEP / REP have residue from removal of an adhered dustjacket. Foxing present to FEP / REP. Separation from binding at pages 4 -5 , and a tear at page 41.
Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, New York, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cover is in excellent condition, save for slight rubbing/fading with age. DJ is unclipped, affixed to cover with tape, and in good condition, save for rubbing/dirtying and edge wear. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Ex-Library indications can be found on FEP and EP. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: From the private library of noted American poet William H. Matchett, with his childhood bookplate pastedown on the ffep. Reprint, issued by the Book-of-the-Month Club, a stated First Edition with an A-P code on copyright page. 8vo. - measuring over 7 3/4 in. - 12 in. Bound in gray cloth, blocked and titled in black and gilt on the spine. In the pictorial dustjacket by Richard Floethe, with no printed price on front flap; the back flap is clipped. 359 pp., with a deckled fore-edge. A lovely copy in Very Good condition with light bumping to the head of the spine and light age-staining on the pages. The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with moderate edgewear and chipping through the back panel. Brodarted.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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 a first edition statement and publisher's code ("A-P"), but the bindings are completely different (the true first edition has the title and author in white and red color blocks on the cover AND spine). A nice copy of one of the indisputable mid-century classics of African-American literature.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. Harper, New York, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, gray cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Harper, (1940). First Edition. Second issue binding, and dust wrapper, with "First Edition A-P" on copyright page. Ownership name on flyleaf.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Bros, New York, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Harper & Bros, 1940. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition (stated). but the Second Issue. Dark gray cloth binding; titling on the spine in black and gilt. Clean text; xi, 359 pages. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Very slight lean, else a Fine copy. The dustjacket is also the second issue, with an illustration of Bigger leaning against the stoop. Some creasing top of spine, light nicks at edges; spine is darkened. 1/2" closed tear lower front panel. In an archival plastic protector. A sound and very attractive copy of this 20th Century literary high-spot. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers: NY 1940, 1940.
Price: US$76.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Like new high quality first edition facsimile/copy by The First edition library of the original first issue. (Uncommon) Book and just jacket replicate the original first American trade edition and are housed in illustrated publisher's slipcase which is still in shrinkwrap. Note: Corners of slipcase are exposed as shrinkwrap has worn off in those areas; not a big issue but so noted. (This book is in our possession. We ship most books six days a week and will confirm with tracking number for domestic orders or customs number for international).
Seller: Abound Book Company, Overland Park, KS, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper And Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$78.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: no interior or exterior marks / lettering on spine faded / overall great condition;
Seller: First Choice Books, coeurd'Alene, ID, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$79.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Staining and minor wear to boards. ; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: TITLE: NATIVE SON By RICHARD WRIGHT 1940 Book Club First Edition AUTHOR: RICHARD WRIGHT PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: HARPER & BROTHERS, NY 1940 EDITION: Assumed Reprint Edition of the Book Club with First Edition stated with 'A-P' present ISBN: NONE CATEGORY: Ethnic, First Edition, Rare BINDING/COVER: Hardback without dust jacket COLOR: GRAYISH SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 359 pages. CONDITION: The book is without a dust jacket. The outside is in good condition; there is a tanning or browning to the spine. The inside has just a few age like freckle foxing spots on the pastedowns. There is a fancy signature written on the top edge of the first front free endpaper. Book is without other marks or writings, pages are clean and book is tight and sturdy. All the pages are present in book. Good/None dust jacket condition. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: By the author of UNCLE TOM'S CHILDREN. Book Club edition with the gray color and gold writing the spine; the copyright clearly states 'First Edition A-P'. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, book(s) will ship immediately to customer (it's on the way), you are welcome to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCodePrc E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 008768
Seller: ViewFair Books, Live Oak, FL, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper and Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (stated) hardcover. Gray cover shows very minor wear. Clean pages. Tight binding. No dust jacket. Near fine inside and out.
Seller: Blue Leaf Books, Winona, MN, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harpers, 1940.
Price: US$84.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: stated first
Seller: Hill Country Books, Ctr Sandwich, NH, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First edition, second printing. Second state binding. Pages top stained. Fine grey cloth, gold chains on spine, gold on black titles. 359 pp. Two-color title page. Previous owner's name on ffep, else fine. In new FACSIMILE dust jacket appropriate for printing. Very good in new dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Wright, Rchard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$86.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: CANONICAL: POWERFUL: EXCEPTIONAL: HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE: A SUPERB copy approaching its 84th year: FINE Stated First Edition hardcover (Orig. January 1940) with full "letter line" showing "A-P" / PARTIAL JACKET w/ front & rear interior flaps & back panel carefully preserved & displayed within a precisely applied mylar sleeve, FINE cover w/ gray-blue library-durable linen wrapping spine & covering front & back panels & w titles handsomely presented in gold on black spine panel, FINE unblemished text-block exterior w/ cut-page-style bottom & side edging & w/ smooth-cut top edge stained in faded olive-gray, IMPECCABLE unblemished cream-white card-stock end-papers showing slight age-toning, AS-NEW binding w/ tight sheets, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper showing slightest age toning * 5.50" x 8.26" x 1.48", 0.64 kg, xii+359 (371) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: From the beginning, Bigger was doomed. He was a 'nigger' on Chicago's South Side, w/ no where to go, a 'nigger' in a white man's world. He might have been up for some petty crime, but by chance it was for murder & rape. He killed the first girl in an unpremeditated moment of panic & was caught up by forces he could neither understand nor control. Murder led to a more brutal murder & Bigger at last felt alive--he had found in acts of violence the sense of manhood & freedom, distorted as they were, which Bessie, w/ her whiskey, & his mother, w/ her religion, had not been able to give him. This CLASSIC novel is one of POWERFUL emotions & naked suffering. It is an assault upon the white man & his society, in which Wright's rage & bitterness are compressed to a degree that forces us to experience the truth of what man does to man. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: RICHARD WRIGHT was born in 1908 on a plantation near Natchez, Mississippi. As a child he lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage & w/ various relatives. At the age of 15 he returned to Memphis where he worked for 2 years. "Accidentally", said Wright, "I came across H.L. Mencken's 'Book of Prefaces', which served as literary Bible for me for some years. Because I was not prepared to be anything else, I decided to become a writer." In 1934 Wright went to Chicago & in 1935 began work w/ the Federal Writer's Project. He won his first success with "Uncle Tom's Children" in 1938. W/ "Native Son" (1940) he won fame & financial independence. His autobiography "Black Boy" appeared in 1945 & "The Outsider" in 1953. After WWII Wright expatriated w/ his wife & daughters to Paris, where he died in 1960. * SHIPPING: Mnemosyne carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this CLASSIC book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL (for a nominal fee) & to all international destinations at our posted rates via USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL.
Seller: Mnemosyne, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$87.50 + shipping
Description: xiii - li p., later printing, 5.5x8 inches, stapled printed white wraps, spinefold is split almost all the way, else find signs of slight general handling. Paginated as for a preface to a reissue of the novel.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$87.50 + shipping
Description: xi, 359p., hardcover, stated first edition but actually the Book Club printing, second state binding, private bookplate on front free endpaper, in a chipped pictorial dustjacket.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$87.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Front and rear hinges starting. Light shelfwear on spine and panel corners.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a nice First Edition (stated, with A-P on copyright page) of Richard Wright's 1940 novel. No jacket. Condition is very good, with wear on top and bottom bindings and on board corners (see pictures). Ex-Libris namelate was poorly removed on front endpage (see picture). Slight browning to the pages, but really a nice copy overall.
Seller: Berry Hill Research, Oyster Bay, NY, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper, NY, 1940.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 359. Slight tear on spine, cover slightly worn at corners, in the more common second binding of gray cloth, o/w VG.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brother, New York, 1940.
Price: US$98.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Year on title page. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Gray cloth. Owner name. Small cloth tear top spine end.
Seller: SuzyQBooks, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$99.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: first printing of the First Edition stated "first edition" sticker and writing on first white page, unreadable spine, housed in a reproduction dust wrapper from 50 years after publication
Seller: beat book shop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, NY, 1940.
Price: US$99.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition second state (first edition A-P) hardcover, gray cloth titled in gilt/black title box, gray topstain. Spine ends a bit pushed else near fine. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, slightly rubbed/small closed tear at spine ends, small flaw mid spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Bros., 1940.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition stated with the A-P code beneath, top edge stained gray. Binding tight and square, just the lightest touch of rubbing at the corners and spine ends, text block fresh and unmarked.
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good second state binding in a Very Good later state jacket, unclipped (no price), generally toned, some chips at the head and foot of the spine. Grey buckram with a black ink panel and gilt lettering and designs on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, dark grey top stain, clean internally. Wright's novel about Bigger Thomas and his trial for the murder of a wealthy white woman in Chicago, considered one of the best novels of the 20th century.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Wright Richard. Native Son :. NY Harper & Brothers 1940 .Stated first Edition,, 1940.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: cloth hard cover.square 8vo.359 PP.light rubbing on upper spine, very good ,strong Copy .No Jacket. African American LIt.
Seller: The Compulsive Collector, New York NY, NY, U.S.A.
Wright , Richard. Native Son. Harpers, 1940.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG+/VG+ BCE 1940 First A-P edition on copyright page
Seller: Sawgrass Books & Music, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Bros, New York, 1940.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: a near fine copy in the 2nd issue grey and black cloth, in the 2nd issue pictorial dust jacket by the artist George Salten. not price clipped, chipped dj, else good. Listed in all sources of Afro Americana, including Blockson, Schoemberg, Delaware. One of the seminal books in all American literature. and one of Richard Wright's masterpieces. The only other novel to compare is the Invisible Man. of Ralph Ellison.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper Bros, New York, 1940.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: a good plus copy, shows some wear in the original grey cloth, in the pictorial 2nd issue dust jacket of the boy on the stoop signed by Floethe. Grey dust jacket of near very good under mylar brodart, one of Wright's most famous novels, and basis for a fine film on the life and tragic end of Bigger. his protagonist. Nice copy overall
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper, NY, 1940.
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 359. Slightly scuffed at ends of spine, in the more common second binding of gray cloth. A nice copy in chipped dj.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$109.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Front hinge cracked.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
richard wright. native son. harper & brothers, new york, 1940.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: very good ++ ; mild fading to spine, very mild chips to spine, some shelfwear
Seller: leaves, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition stated on copyright page, A-P Code. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Owner's names on end pages, else unmarked. xi, 359 p., 21 cm. "If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son." - Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper& Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1940.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Grey cloth boards with title on spine in black and gilt. Spine ends bumped. Spine slightly cocked. Pages lightly toned, clean. DJ in protective cover has some surface rubbed spots. Lower front corner is chipped as well as bottom back at spine and at top spine, else in tact.
Seller: onourshelves, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Bros., New York, 1940.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Description: Good++ faded spine, wear to extrems. Former owner's name on the FFEP. Stated first edition A-P. Top edged stained.
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$124.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Flaps clipped on corners, book plate. First Edition stated with A-P. Below. BOMC slip neatly laid in. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 359 pp. Text clean. Binding good. Cover faded on spine. See photo. Overall Good
Seller: Doodletown Farm Books, Ancram, NY, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first edition (may be a later printing) of this great novel by the author of Uncle Tom's Children. Book is clean through out showing only very minor age toning. Jacket shows some wear mainly to the points of the boards and at the top and the bottom of the spine. Jacket is now housed in a Brodart cover for protection. A nice copy of a hard to find important novel. Additional details available upon request.
Seller: BDC Books, Stratford, ON, Canada
Richard Wright. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$129.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Good price clipped dust jacket. Spine fading, several chips & tears. All corners of flaps clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers (New York), 1940.
Price: US$149.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: HC/DJ - Stated First Edition, with A-P markings underneath on c.p.; Blue-Grey woven boards with black text-block on spine and gilt titling with decorated gilt decorated bordering to block. No shelf-wear. Deckled edges and brown-dyed top-edge. Clean Interior. No markings. Tight binding. Straight spine. DJ, is the second-issue, better Illustrated. It has some creasing at edges and tearing at extremities. Photos are included. 359pp. 8vo. --B.R. ox 108
Seller: Best Books And Antiques, Chandler, TX, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harpers, 1940.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition with the "A-P" code on the copyright page. Gray cloth with gold lettering and black label on the spine - second state. The clipped jacket is also second state. Near fine in a very good plus jacket with light edge wear.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. HOW "BIGGER" WAS BORN. Harper & Brothers, US, 1940.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The story of Native Son, one of the most significant novels of our time, and how it came to be written. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has light shelf wear. Light soiling to lower edge of front cover; otherwise, covers are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Clear plastic dust jacket is clean and unmarked.
Seller: Atlanta Vintage Books, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. How "Bigger" Was Born. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 20 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. 39 pages. Staple bound yellow pamphlet. Stated first edition. There has been some tape reenforcement to the cover. Some soiling to the cover. The Story of Native Son One of the Most Significant novels of our time, and how it came to be written.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$159.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped, price remains. Light rubbing along panel edges. 2 inch open tear at spine crown. Few other small open tears alogn panel edges. Stated First Edition.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harpers & Brothers, NY and London, 1940.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gray boards with black label to spine and gilt lettering.Rubricated title page. Stated first edition with pictorial DJ. The pages are tight, bright and clean. a collectors item, just not signed.
Seller: Allison Robinson Books, DUXBURY, MA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper: NY, 1940.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8.25 x 5.5", dark blue cloth with red title on light background on front cover and spine, 359pp, covers rubbed and darkened, some white streaks at top of front cover, extremities bumped and lightly fraying, pp toned, former owner's ink inscription inside front cover, but still a good copy of the FIRST EDITION (so stated, "A-P"), FIRST ISSUE. Sorry, no dustjacket.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harper & Brothers. New York.1940. (1945). 359 pages. First edition, early printing. The first printing code is A-P (January 1940) however this copy uses an H-U code on the copyright page, which translates to August 1945; hence this printing comes five years after this the first printing in 1940. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong. Boxed red and white titles on blue cloth. Previous owner's name neatly written on front pastedown. Minor rubbing to cloth on backstrip. A solid, VG copy of the classic.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard A.. Native Son. Harper and Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket, wear to edges, Stated "First edition A-P", previous owner's signature
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a staplebound pamphlet with medium cardstock covers. The pamphlet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The yellow covers have some ground-in dirt and beginning toning, especially to the spine. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, but have a bit of light, generalized toning. "I am not so pretentious as to imagine that it is possible for me to account completely for my own book, Native Son. But I am going to try to account for as much of it as I can, the sources of it, the material that went into it, and my own years' long changing attitude toward that material." "Native Son was published by Harper & Brothers on March 1, 1940. On March 12 of the same year, Richard Wright delivered the lecture, "How Bigger Was Born, " at Columbia University in New York City. He eventually gave this lecture four more times, twice in Harlem, and in Chicago and North Carolina. Harpers soon published the lecture as a pamphlet, and it was included in subsequent editions of the novel. It is also included in the restored text of Native Son, published by The Library of America in 1991, and HarperPerennial in 1993."
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, New York, USA, 1940.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Harper & Brothers, New York, New York, 1940. First Printing of First Edition, with the required A-P code on copyright page below stated First Edition. Second state binding: gray. Fine- condition. No Dust Jacket. Text Block is clean, tight, straight and square, with gray topstain, deckled fore-edges and no markings of any kind other than prior owner's name to front endpaper. Binding is full gray cloth with still bright gilt design and title, etc., to spine, wrinkled front top corner, but all corners square, and 1/4" tear to top of spine. No Dust Jacket. 359 pages. 5.75 x 8.25 inches. A novel about systemic racism in America and one of the earliest successful attempts to explain the racial divide in America in terms of the social conditions imposed on African Americans by the dominant white society. The basis for the 1941 Broadway play of the same name, produced and directed by Orson Welles and starring Canada Lee. Adapted for film three times, 1951, 1986, and 2019.
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$208.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in cloth. Owner name and date on FEP. First Edition statement and "A - P" on the copyright page. ; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$209.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in boards.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$216.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in navy cloth. A-P on copyright page under the words "first edition."
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper, New York, 1940.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wright's classic story of life in the "most segregated city in America" Chicago, in the early 20th century.This outstanding novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black American youth living in utter poverty. Bigger lived in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. While not apologizing for Bigger's crimes, Richard Wright portrays a systemic inevitability behind them. Bigger's lawyer makes the case that there is no escape from this destiny for his client or any other black American, since they are the necessary product of the society that formed them and told them since birth who exactly they were supposed to be. "No American Negro exists," James Baldwin once wrote, "who does not have his private Bigger Thomas living in his skull." Frantz Fanon discusses this feeling in his 1952 essay "L'Expérience Vécue du Noir", or "The Fact of Blackness". "In the end," writes Fanon, "Bigger Thomas acts. To put an end to his tension, he acts, he responds to the world's anticipation." Wright based aspects of the novel on the 1938 arrest and trial of Robert Nixon, executed in 1939 following a series of "brick bat murders" in Los Angeles and Chicago. Wright's protest novel was an immediate best-seller, selling 250,000 hardcover copies within three weeks of its publication by the Book-of-the-Month Club on March 1, 1940. It was one of the earliest successful attempts to explain the racial divide in America in terms of the social conditions imposed on African-Americans by the dominant white society. It also made Wright the wealthiest black writer of his time and established him as a spokesperson for African-American issues, and the "father of Black American literature." As Irving Howe said in his 1963 essay "Black Boys and Native Sons," "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. No matter how much qualifying the book might later need, it made impossible a repetition of the old lies . [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear, and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture." The novel's treatment of Bigger and his motivations is an example of literary naturalism. First Edition A-P Second State binding. Along with Ellison's Invisible Man and Baldwin's Go Tell It On the Mountain, one of the indisputable mid-century classics of African-American literature.Book has gray cover and in good condition. The back back strip has darkened but is easily readable. Spine ends are bumped, but corners are straight and pointed. In a later dust jacket (no price to flap) which has chipping to the fore edge, darkening to the spine and a 1/8" chip missing from the head of the spine. All and all a good copy of this important book.
Seller: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1940.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Grosset & Dunlap. New York. 1940. 359 pages. Grosset & Dunlap edition in classic DJ design matching artwork design of the Harper & Brothers first printing, just this one with a red background. Book is tight and clean. Gray burlap cloth with red titles. Book is clean inside and out. Previous owners' names written on front pastedown; covered by DJ flap. Classic attractive DJ shows and open chip at crown; shallow chipping at foot and folds. Light soiling to rear. Minor sunning on spine. An attractive, desirable copy of the classic.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harper & Brothers Publishers New York. First edition hard cover published in 1940. The letters A-P appear under first edition marking. No DJ. Very Good condition. Grey cloth covers. Pages are toned and book has personal stamp of former owner dated in ink 8-19-98. Slight separation of front board with title page but book is solid throughout although discoloration is noted on front and back cover. See images. Includes a copy of "Cliff Notes" titled "Wright's Native Son".
Seller: RMM Upstate Books, Liverpool, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper& Brothers, NY, 1940.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Solid, clean first edition, with bookplate front pastedown. Blue linen-backed covers. Dustjacket is obviously chipped about edges and some closed splits to flaps,and some intgernal tape repairs head of spine. but an attractive copy now "under mylar" as they say.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Bros. New York, 1940.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition ~1st Printing Hardcover very good in professional reproduction dust jacket, in fresh mylar cover; gentle rubbing/bumping to board edges, minor abrasions to topstain, mild rubbing to title on cloth spine else a tight square unmarked copy in mint reproduced jacket; stated first edition with A-P
Seller: David Kaye Books & Memorabilia, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1940.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. DJ price clipped.
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated First Edition, Copyright page states First Edition A-P. No DJ, FFP has pencil "Victoria B.C., May 10th, '45". Been in our library ever since. Some damage to rear board, see photos.
Seller: Albert & Rosie's Books, WEBSTER, MA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. How Bigger Was Born. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 39 pages. First edition, first printing. The story of how Native Son was written. Fine book with the spine very slightly browned in wrappers. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$294.90 + shipping
Description: Very Good- in boards. A few stains to boards. A few markings to front pastedown and FEP. Stated First Edition, with publisher's code "A-P". ; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper and Brothers, NY, 1940.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 359 pgs., 8vo. A solid binding, with the red seal, date, and title on Title Page. No writing inside; Gray cloth, clean outside and inside. Couple small rubs on spine title block, not serious. Hint of stain at top corner of back board. Lower rear corner bumped. Faint roughing from price sticker sticker removed from fly. A nice and rare copy of this title. Very good condition (no dust jacket). 'A' Printing of First edition. Code 'A-P' , but no red on the outer covers (2nd state binding)
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. NATIVE SON. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$316.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 359 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. A section is clipped out of the ffep. Page edges are deckled and lightly darkened. Head edges dyed with black publisher's stain. Bound in grey cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Lightly faded on the spine. Lightly worn around the edges and corners. Grey dustjacket in good condition. Worn around the edges with chips and tears. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING. "A-P" code on the copyright page. VG/G
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Richard Wright. Native Son. Harper and Brothers Publishing, New York, 1940.
Price: US$318.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Wright's classic story of life in the "most segregated city in America" Chicago, in the early 20th century. Book has gray cover and in very good + condition, except for the black and gold printing on spine only which is rubbed and missing 3 letters, spine ends are bumped, but corners are straight and pointed. Book had a label , possibly an ex-libris or library label removed from front paste-down, else VG+. jacket is in VG condition and is price clipped.Spine ends and rear fold are chipped. Saying all that it is a quite nice collectible. First edition with A-P under First edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Oshtemo Book Sellers, Chester, NY, U.S.A.
Richard Wright. Native Son. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, grey cloth lettered in gilt; Book Club-issued pictorial issue dust jacket, slightly soiled. First edition, first printing (stated). A handsome copy of Wright's impactful novel.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nice copy in its first printing. Unmarked, tight and square. The true first with Navy blue binding and white red and blue stamping to front or top board. Light to moderate wear at spine ends and all tips. Stamping still bright. White endpapers. Date on title page of 1940 and correct code of A - P on copyright. Jacket is a professionally made facsimile of the yellow green jacket protected in transparent mylar. There was a large printing of book clubs of this book, the first ever for a black writer so beware when purchasing. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. A. H. Belo Corporation, New York, 1940.
Price: US$383.20 + shipping
Description: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Hardcover. Condition is good with wear on spine lettering . Price clipped Dust Jacket Condition is fair to good with some shelf wear and surface loss & dust jacket break on top of spine in mylar cover. 1st Edition. Wright received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete his novel, an immediate best seller and portrayal of Black youth in the US. With an 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, 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 There is minor chipping at the top of the spine of the dust jacket. The dust jacket is the first edition's reissued and artful and evocative illustrated jacket. It measures 6" by 8 1/4". Size: 6" By 8 1/4"
Seller: lawrence weekley, Columbus, NC, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1940.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth with red stamped title. Book has light exterior wear with with bumps or rubs to corners and some interior toning, especially on endpapers along with typical aging on foredges. Jacket his in three pieces with half of spine missing.See scan. Dustjacket is the second issue, though the much more common issue. Jacket looks OK in Mylar, except, of course, for missing portion of spine. Overall a square and attractive copy of the book in a poor dustjacket. Stated First Edition of Wright's masterwork. Still powerful today. Blockson 5938. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 359 pages
Seller: The Ridge Books, Calhoun, GA, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard.. Native Son.. New York Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Price: US$453.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing (stated), Book Club issue in the specially designed dust jacket; 8vo; publisher's grey cloth, titles to spine gilt on a black ground, grey topstain, with the pictorial dust jacket; a beautiful copy in the somewhat creased and tanned dust jacket. The book club issue - from the sheet and in the same binding as all the first printings - may be distinguished by the much more attractive pictorial dust jacket issued specially for the book club.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper, New York, 1940.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine true first edition, first issue dark blue cloth. Copyright page states "First Edition" and has publisher's code "A-P." Octavo (8 x 5 1/2 x 204 x 141 mm). xi, [1, blank], 359, [1, blank] pp. Title printed in red and black. Original dark blue cloth stamped and lettered in red and white on front cover and spine. Housed in a beautiful facsimilie dust jacket which is Bordart protected. Wright's classic story of life in the "most segregated city in America" Chicago, in the early 20th century.This outstanding novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black American youth living in utter poverty. Bigger lived in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. While not apologizing for Bigger's crimes, Richard Wright portrays a systemic inevitability behind them. Bigger's lawyer makes the case that there is no escape from this destiny for his client or any other black American, since they are the necessary product of the society that formed them and told them since birth who exactly they were supposed to be. "No American Negro exists," James Baldwin once wrote, "who does not have his private Bigger Thomas living in his skull." Frantz Fanon discusses this feeling in his 1952 essay "L'Expérience Vécue du Noir", or "The Fact of Blackness". "In the end," writes Fanon, "Bigger Thomas acts. To put an end to his tension, he acts, he responds to the world's anticipation." Wright based aspects of the novel on the 1938 arrest and trial of Robert Nixon, executed in 1939 following a series of "brick bat murders" in Los Angeles and Chicago. Wright's protest novel was an immediate best-seller, selling 250,000 hardcover copies within three weeks of its publication by the Book-of-the-Month Club on March 1, 1940. It was one of the earliest successful attempts to explain the racial divide in America in terms of the social conditions imposed on African-Americans by the dominant white society. It also made Wright the wealthiest black writer of his time and established him as a spokesperson for African-American issues, and the "father of Black American literature." As Irving Howe said in his 1963 essay "Black Boys and Native Sons," "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. No matter how much qualifying the book might later need, it made impossible a repetition of the old lies . [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear, and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture." The novel's treatment of Bigger and his motivations is an example of literary naturalism. A beautiful copy of this classic American novel.
Seller: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$517.50 + shipping
Description: 8 x 5.25, printed stapled self wraps, 51 pp, covers worn, chipped, torn, and creased, contents toned and thumbed. Later printing ("c-q") but INSCRIBED "To Horace with all my own best . . ." AND SIGNED "Dick and Ellen" BY THE AUTHOR RICHARD WRIGHT.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard 1908-60.. NATIVE SON.. New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940., 1940.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: [True] Stated First (SD) with "A-P" below First Edition on copyright page edition. Original blue cloth with red, gray and blue labels uniquely rebound in-house by KTB in acid free J. Hewit Red and blue Cawburn goat retaining original top board label for book with 5 raised bands and original spine label for slipcase spine. Triangle motif on top and bottom board and slipcase slide. 8vo. pp. xi, [1] blank, 359. Near Fine/Lacks jacket/Fine. Light overall toning to pages, no ownership. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Original end papers were washed and re-inserted with new complimentary Dodin marbled end papers and slipcase base in red blue and gray. A unique red, 'white' and lblue gift of Wright's explosive and gritty period novel examining racism in America.fear, flight and fate.
Seller: OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994), West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.