Native by Wright Richard, Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. 359 pages. Contents are tight (firm hinges without cracks). Paper is age slightly age-toned; last 2 pages has very small light stains on bottom margins, else clean. Second issue binding: Dark blue top edge stain has faded. Dark grey cloth is clean, square. . Black & gold spine letters are slightly muted. Top corners lightly bumped. Bottom corners scuffed. Slight shelf wear to bottom edge. On the first blank end paper, the author has inscribed in black fountain-pen ink, in large bold script: "To Shirley E. Waldwan, Sincerely, Richard Wright". This is the first 1940 Edition (B-P), second issue. This copy comes with a FACSIMILE FIRST PRINTING DUST JACKET which is As New. Rare autographed copy of his landmark book. Please "Ask Bookseller" if this is available before ordering. Signed by Author(s).

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.

Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Octavo, xi, 359 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine tan with black lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering. Mild shelf wear. Soiling and toning to covers. Creasing and chipping along edges, with open tear to head of spine. Bumping to spine. Top edge of textblock dyed black, though faded. Toning to interior pages. Inscribed by Richard Wright on front free endpaper, reading, "To - A.B. Hanson, Jr. / "Your Honor, remember that men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from the lack of bread." / Sincerely yours / Richard Wright / 3/4/43 / Brooklyn, N.Y." Includes typed letter signed from Wright to the same A.B. Hanson, Jr. Letter reads, "Dear Mr. Hanson: / Forgive my delay in answer ing [sic] your letter. Yes, if you send along the book, I'll be glad to sign it for you. / Your letter got lost with a bale of material that hangs around my desk and only last night did I locate it. / I'm glad you liked BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR [sic]; I only hope that I will write more like them. / Meanwhile, / Sincerely yours, / [signed Richard Wright]" VS consignment. Shelved in Case 3. 1387496. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. first. INSCRIBED first edition, as stated on copyright page, in later dust jacket. Facsimile dust jacket added. INSCRIBED by author on front free end paper. Book very good plus, covers near fine, bookstore sticker attached to front and rear paste-down, minor foxing to front papers, minor discoloration to front and rear papers. Later dust jacket very good, minor wear, discoloration to top and bottom edges. Facsimile dj fine.

First edition, first issue with "A - P" on the copyright page. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. An exceptional presentation. Richard Wright's ground-breaking novel Native Son tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, an African American living in utter poverty in Chicago's South Side ghetto in the 1930s. "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. 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" (Irving Howe).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition, first issue dark blue binding. About fine with light bump at one corner and offsetting from a clipping, in a very good or better first issue dust jacket with some scuffs and small stains on the spine and rear panel. Housed in a custom quarter morocco and marbled papercovered boards clamshell case. This copy Inscribed to Ralph D. Hartman, president of the Cleveland Photographic Society and avid book collector, with his bookplate on the front pastedown: "To - Ralph D. Hartman 'Freedom belongs to the strong . ' Sincerely, Richard Wright. 2/19/41 Brooklyn. N.Y." One of the handful of great classics of 20th Century fiction, increasingly difficult to find inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition of this landmark, highly collectible title by Richard Wright.  A close to Fine copy in its original very good pictorial dust jacket, corners clipped, a jacket whose front and rear are superb but the spine is severely stained on its lower third.  That said, and nonetheless, a more than presentable copy of an important First Edition which is signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper as follows:  With my best wishes / Richard Wright. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xi. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. 359pp. Blue top edges. Blue cloth boards with black and gilt title on spine. Slightly rubbed. Pictorial Chipped and rubbed Dust Jacket. INSCRIBED on f.f.p. "Best Wishes to Michael Parlato Richard Wright 3/5/40." A nice copy with a rare signature. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Hardcover.