Native by Wright Richard, First Edition (223 results)

STIFF PAPER ILLUSTRATED WRAPS. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: NO DUST JACKET AS ISSUED. 1st Edition. (4) + 5 - 399 + (1) PAGES. THERE IS MINIMAL SHELF WEAR OF THE BOOK'S EDGES. THE BOOK IS TIGHT AND CLEAN. THERE IS AN AFTERWORD WRITTEN BY RICHARD SULLIVAN. Size: 4 1/8" X 7" SIGNET PAPERBACK EDITION - THIRD PRINTIN.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing dust jacket, box, or discs. Damaged item.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Library of America series. Book comes in its original slipcase. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0940450666. ISBN/EAN: 9780940450660. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23081.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: slipcase fine. Stated first edition. NOT an ex library book. Book with dark red cloth binding. Clean pages, ribbon marker. Slipcase has no splits.

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Book As New. NO notes or ANY markings. NO names. Remainder slash at bottom edge. DJ with long tape repaired slit along front spine edge. Else Very Fine NO other defects. Not clipped ($35) ; Library Of America; 916 pages.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels"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."The most powerful American novel to appear since The Grapes of Wrath." --The New YorkerWhen it was first published in 1940, Native Son established Richard Wright as a literary star. In the decades since, Wright's masterpiece--hailed by Newsweek as "a novel of tremendous power and beauty"--has become a revered classic that remains as timely and relevant today as when it first appeared.Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Native Son is the story of Bigger Thomas, a young Black man caught in a downward spiral after killing a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Written with the distinctive rhythm of a modern crime story, this formidable work is both a condemnation of social injustice and an unsparing portrait of the Black experience in America, revealing the tragic effect of poverty, racism, and hopelessness on the human spirit. "I wrote Native Son to show what manner of men and women our 'society of the majority' breeds, and my aim was to depict a character in terms of thw living tissue and texture of daily consciousness," Wright explained.This edition of Native Son--the restored text established by the Library of America--is the novel as Wright intended it to be published. It also includes an essay by Wright titled, How "Bigger" was Born, along with notes on the text. Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the forces of poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that continue to shape society. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Very Good. No dust jacket. Owner's name on front endpage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition in very good used condition. The Friends of the Bridgeport Public Library use these funds to promote literacy in the community and in the Bridgeport Public Schools.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition in original slipcase. Friends of the Bridgeport Public Library use these funds to promote literacy in the community and the Bridgeport public schools.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition; First Printing. Book and DJ NEW. No markings of ANY kind. New DJ not clipped ($22.95) ; 228 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. No dust jacket. Grey cloth boards are rubbed at the corners, darkened at the edges, spine darkened with wear head/tail. Inside front cover and front endpaper have glue residue and toning, pen name. First edition, A-P Printing, January 1940. Richard Wright's classic novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in poverty Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. Thomas accidentally kills a white woman and pays a terrible price for it. While not in collectible condition, an excellent reading copy. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Beautiful book club edition of the original FIRST EDITION hardcover book (copyright page states "First Edition", but no price on DJ and blind stamp on rear cover) in AS NEW FINE condition DJ in near fine condition.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/No remainder mark.//We ship 5 days a week.Shelfnear276.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition THUS, first printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. First Modern Library Edition. Unmarked, clean and solid copy. First modern library stated.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Minor wear to this copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Name in ink on spine. No jacket. Light wear to couple corners.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st ed, 2nd prtg,

Paperback. first PB. 794, good - very good, creases (RACIAL CRIME NOVEL), paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued. 1st Edition. A Fine copy with a maroon cloth binding and fine slipcase. Still in the original unopened shrink wrap with the publisher's notes. Subscribers edition with no dust jacket as issued.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with slight wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Cover corners & spine ends are moderately bumped & worn. Slight looseness to spine. Some foxing to inside cover & facing pg. A pretty nice copy. Book.

Condition: New. 2020. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . .

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Very rare first edition paperback of the groundbreaking novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition First Printing. Harrowing novel that portrays the systemic oppression of opportunities wrought by racism & the often-tragic outcomes, here, the accidental killing of a white woman by the story's protagonist, Bigger Thomas, set on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. A FIRST EDITION from Jan. 1940, slightly later printing (lacking statement), in the second state binding: gray cloth-covered boards, lettered in gilt inside a black title box on spine. Condition is Fair: significant rubbing to extremities & darkening/soil to exterior text block, some random spots within. Stain to front board. Pages off-white & otherwise unmarked, Binding strong & straight, hinges secure. NO DJ (missing). Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.