Books by Wright Richard

NY:: The Library of America,. 1991.. Hardcover. 936pp. Fine / Fine dust jacket. ... more information

(NY): (Harper & Brothers). (1940). Book Club Edition. Very Good, lacking the dustjacket. . Hardcover. ... more information

Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1980. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in tall wrappers. . First Edition. Softcover. ... more information

Oxford: The University of Mississippi. 1985. 24p. event program on newsprint, 7.5x11 inches, wraps. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1940. Hardbound. Good, In dust jacket. 359pp. ... more information

(New York: The Library of America. 1991). First. Revised proofs, not a finished copy. Two volumes. Near fine in wrappers with a mild crease in the front wrap of part two, title handwritten on the spine . . ... more information

(NY): (Harper & Brothers). (1940). Book Club Edition. Very Good in Good (edge-worn, sun-faded) DJ. . Hardcover. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940.. Grey cloth. First edition, book club printing (from the same plates), dignified only by the striking pictorial dust jacket adopted in lieu of the typographic dust jacket that adorned the proper first printing. Spine a bit cocked, two corners bumped, else very good in a faintly soiled dust jacket with fraying to the head of the spine and several small closed tears. ... more information

(New York: The Library of America. 1984). First. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. . ... more information

NY Harper and Brothers 1968. lgt edgwr, else VG+/ dj foxing, edgwr, sm rubspots to bk cvr, VG. 359 pgs.; by author of "Uncle Tom's Children;" nice color watercolor illus on grey dj, over drk grey cloth; says 1st edition, but it is not, because it lacks Bruccoli Point.. F. Hardcover. ... more information

(Shelton, CT): (First Edition Library), n.d. hardcover. Near Fine in Fine dustwrapper and slipcase. Each First Edition Library volume is identical to the original edition, down to the first critic's comments printed on the jacket flap. The design of every volume is unique to its own era: the dust jacket artwork, hardcover bindings, typefaces, endpapers, title pages, even the minor errors that collectors look for." An exact facsimile of the First Edition except for the disclaimer on the copyright page and ... more information

Harper& Brothers, 1940, 1940. Book. Very Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Apparent facsimile from 1940 (B-R copyright). Beautiful jacket. Small chip to the crown. Original blue boards in first issue jacket.. ... more information

1940. 3. *Wright, Richard (Nathaniel), 1908-1960. Native Son. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1940. 1st Australian ed. xi, 403p. Hardcover (green cloth). dj. 22cm. Jacket slightly soiled and has a few short tears. Front cover warped. Foxing on endpapers and page edges. Good/Good. A novel. ... more information

First Edition Library Reprint by Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York: 1940. Fine in black cloth covered boards with orange and black text on gray and red text blocks on the spine and the same on the front board. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/4". In a fine, facsimile, unclipped dust jacket with the "FEL" logo on the rear flap. Both the book and its dust jacket are contained within a fine slip case covered with light gray cloth with reproductions of the front and rear pane... more information

New York: The Modern Library. no date, early 40's. xi, 394p., gift inscription dated year of publication, first Modern Library edition, gray cloth casing is slightly shelfworn, dj is edgeworn with an abrasion along the upper cover fold and eighth inch chipping at head and tail, 281 titles listed on verso. (Modern Library # 221) ... more information

NY: Harper, 1940. First Edition 8vo, pp. xi, 359. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Owner's bookplate on pastedown, another's name on flyleaf. VG. A novel.... more information

New York: Modern Library, 1942. Original grey cloth with gilt and black labels. Grey dust jacket with decoration in gold on spine and upper panel. Top edge stained dark grey. A very nice copy with no previous owner's name and no markings.. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 8vo. Trade. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers. (1940). Book club edition. Very good in a very good dustwrapper with chips at the top of the spine, spine is slightly darkened, bookplate on the front pastedown. . ... more information

New York: Harper, 1940. First Edition. Fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with chipping mainly lacking a 2 1/4 by 1 1/4 piece in the upper right hand corner of the the rear panel. The play version of Wright’s landmark novel brought to the New York stage by Orson Welles to great acclaim. ... more information

NY: Harper, 1940. First Edition 8vo, pp. 359. Slight tear on spine, cover slightly worn at corners, in the more common second binding of gray cloth, o/w VG. ... more information