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RICHARD WRIGHT.. Uncle Tom's Children. Four Novellas. With a foreword by Paul Robeson.. Victor Gollancz, London, 1939.

Price: US$194.93 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 286pp. Blue cloth lettered in blue at the spine. Backstrip faded and tips of two corners gently knocked. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown, alongside a small dealer plate, and five digits inkstamped to the corner of the front free endpaper (presumably a private library reference code). An extremely crisp copy. No dust wrapper. The author's second book, a collection of four novellas which received an extremely favourable reception and permitted him sufficient financial freedom to begin his seminal work, 'Native Son'. This UK edition is significantly more uncommon than the US edition which appeared a year earlier.

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom

Wright, Richard. Uncle Tom's Children. Gollancz, 1939.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: London: Victor Gollancz LTD, 1939. First British edition. 12 mo. 286 pp. Light blue cloth. Very good or better in a very good jacket with a little toning to the spine and rear panel. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Wright's first book, published the year before (1938) in the U.S. Uncommon, especially in the jacket.

Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.