American Hunger

New York: Harper & Row, Publisher's, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 148pp. Upper board edges gently sunned, else Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $8.95), with light shelfwear and rubbing overall. Wright's continuation of his autobiographical work Black Boy, covering his struggle to create a new life in Chicago, his early days and break with the Communist Party, and the ostracism that followed.