Native Son.

Wright, Richard

Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1940

About this Item

First edition with "A - P" on the copyright page of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes to Arnold Kohen, RichardÂWright, 3/5/40." Very good in a very good second issue price-clipped dust jacket, second issue binding. 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).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Native Son.
• Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York
• Publication Date: 1940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition