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Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [viii], 317 pages of text. Original hardcover cloth binding heavily worn, soiled, and stained, with darkened spine and minor chipping to top of spine; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Inner hinges starting to detach. Brown textured paper endpapers are detached, and the front endpaper is chipped. A few minor stains in text. Previous owner's name (to whom the note in the book is inscribed) neatly on front pastedown endpaper. Previously affixed to the front endpaper is a note, measuring 4+1/8 inches in height, by 8+1/2 inches in length, with the author's inscription and autograph "for Esther Handler in defense of Loyalist Spain [signed] Richard Wright 4/11/38." The note is folded almost in half, with the crease barely missing Wright's signature. First edition.
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Uncle Tom's Children. Harper & Brothers, 1938.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Story Press Edition. Age-related wear and handling to boards. Gilt on spine faded. Overall foxing to edges with two larger dark spots on fore-edge and bottom edge. Mild wear to spine edges and corners of boards. Gilt lettering on front board in good condition. Paper toned. Inscription from Wright on ffep: "With best wishes/ Richard Wright/ 4/20/39/ New York/ and Gent / 6/18/39." Binding is solid and text clean. Overall good copy considering the age. Photos upon request.
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
WRIGHT, Richard. Uncle Tom's Children. Harper Brothers, 1938.
Price: US$1550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Freedom belongs to the strong" (from Wright's inscription). WRIGHT, Richard (1908 1960). Uncle Tom's Children. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with titles lettered in gilt (sunning to spine; some soiling to paper edges). Fourth edition. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT WITH AN AUTOGRAPHED QUOTATION SIGNED: "To Charlotte Rosenbaum / 'Freedom belongs to the strong' / Sincerely, Richard Wright / 7/8/40 / Chicago." Originally published with four novellas; two more were added when the book was reprinted in 1940. Book #Cv2302. $1550. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.
Seller: PEN ULTIMATE RARE BOOKS, Pine Plains, NY, U.S.A.
Wright, Richard. Uncle Tom's Children.. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1938.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing with B-N on the copyright page of the author's first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "with good wishes Richard Wright 3/14/40." In good condition. Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the postslavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. Published in 1938, this was the first book from Wright, who would continue on to worldwide fame as the author of the novels Native Son and Black Boy.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$7450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Presentation copy from Richard Wright to Ernest Hemingway: "To Ernest Hemingway / From / Richard Wright." Stated second edition in married original dust jacket, first published with four novellas; two more were added when the book was reprinted in 1940. In Down by the Riverside, included in this collection, Wright transposes the Italian retreat at the Battle of Caporetto in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms to the American South. Richard Wright was known to be a great admirer of Ernest Hemingway, whom he once named as a modernist writer whose work should be read by aspiring black authors (Scruggs, Hemingway and the Black Renaissance, 58–59). Mild toning to margins of endpapers, light toning to page margins, spine ends gently crimped, and a light pale stain to bottom front cover, foot of spine, and just an inch to bottom back spine fold, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with professional restoration to extremities, mild shelf wear, light stain to bottom front cover, bottom corner of back cover, and along bottom of flaps, else fine.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.