Native First Edition Library by Wright Richard (10 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile. Facsimile of the first edition was published in 1990, slipcase has some spotting. Dust jacket has just a tad of rubbing. Black cloth boards are in fine condition as is the book's interior. Includes First Edition Library informational insert. "Native Son" was the first novel by an African-American author chosen to be the monthly selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Beautiful facsimile duplicate of the original FIRST EDITION hardcover book and Dust Jacket in AS NEW FINE condition Slipcase in near fine condition with one inch closed tear to rear panel.Bright clean tight.Boards and spine are straight // Binding is tight.//Pages are clean, legible, and bright // No previous owner names//No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No underlining. No highlighting// No foxing// Not Ex Library// Not a Book Club//No remainder mark.//Next day shipping.Shelf1013.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Dj Has Very Light Edgewear. The Coloring On The Dj Spine Is Lightly Faded & There Is A Small Light Liquid Stain On It. Very Light Wear. Slipcase Is In Very Good Shape With Very Light Soiilng.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Beautiful facsimile duplicate of the original FIRST EDITION hardcover book and Dust Jacket in a slipcase in AS NEW FINE condition Slipcase in new fine condition.Still in shrinkwrap. Bright clean tight// Binding is tight./// No previous owner names//No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No underlining. No highlighting// No foxing// Not Ex Library// Not a Book Club//No remainder mark.//We ship 5 days a week.ShelfOrtlcase.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. In Near Fine slipase.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Reissue. Includes publisher's slipcase and insert. Jacket slightly wrinkled from previous owner applying mylar cover too tightly (now removed), minor blemishes to slipcase. 1990 Hard Cover. xi, 359 pp. 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, 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.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Fascimile of the first edition. Very Good+ hardcover in somewhat sunned dust jacket and slightly bumped slipcase. Appears to be unread--a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Facsimile Reprint Edition. First Edition Library facsimile reprint of the first publisher's edition (1940). Copyright renewed 1968, this edition undated but 1980s-90s. Black cloth, with gray and orange title/author fields, in color dust jacket now in mylar, slipcased. Lacking publisher's insert, otherwise as issued. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Native Son by Richard Wright. First Edition Library, Shelton, Connecticut, 1987. First edition FACSIMILE. Slip case measures 8.75 x 5.75". 359 p. In very good condition. Slip case exhibits light shelf wear. Dust jacket remains attractive. Small spots of soiling on rear board. Text-block is bright and clean. Binding is tight and intact. Please see photos. Richard Wright was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence. His best known works include the novella collection Uncle Tom's Children (1938), the novel Native Son (1940), and the memoir Black Boy (1945). Literary critics believe his work helped change race relations in the United States in the mid-20th century. First Editions Library (FEL) is a series of exact facsimile replicas of the first editions published by Collectors' Reprint Inc. Founded in 1987 by Henry Reath, a former president and publisher of Doubleday; his wife, Mary; and Kemp Battle, who also worked at Doubleday, the company prided itself on publishing the best of American literature as it first appeared. FEL facsimiles have the same weight, size, typeface, art, dust jacket, finish and texture as well as points of issue as the originals. In many cases, the Reaths and Battle waded into debate amongst themselves about which editions were indeed the first. With the mission of duplicating the originals as closely as possible, the publisher hired engravers to reproduce typefaces that are no longer used. They dyed both sides of paper to create a shade of green no longer available for the dust jacket on Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey. The sewn bindings, stamping and even the original price on the jacket flap of FEL facsimiles are all exact replicas. The heart of the FEL series is literary fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, including modern classics like F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, and William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom. However, there are four categories of exception: James Bond series (14 titles), mystery series (13 titles), science fiction series (12 titles), and Published in Paris series (3 titles). In total, FEL produced 112 titles. Sometime in the 1990s, FEL stopped production and sold the rights for 49 of its facsimiles to Easton Press. However, the remaining 63 titles are out-of-print. RAREN1987ABBB MC64 26/01.…

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Lightly sunned spine. Facsimile.