Black Boy
by Wright, Richard
Black Boy (1945) is an autobiography by Richard Wright. Depicting Wright's life in great detail, the book tells the story of his troubled youth and race relations in the South. It is about the many struggles that a person of his race must go through in order to survive in the early 1900's. In the story, Richard is a non religious child who grows up in a racist world. He must overcome those struggles in order to bring himself and loved family members to the north.
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Black Boy
by Richard Wright
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- Used - Good
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Printing
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- 1951
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- Tight square binding. Cover edge rubbing. Page tanning. Tight binding,
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Sturbridge, Massachusetts, USA
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£20.32
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Richard Wright's autobiography. A harrowing account of becoming addictive to alcohol at the age of 6. A terrifying record of a Negros childhood in the South. Author of Native Son and Uncle Tom's Children. Item Price
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Black Boy
by WRIGHT, Richard
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- 1945
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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£121.93
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown, gilt on spine rubbed as usual, a couple of tiny tears at the crown and first few leaves with a tiny foredge stain, very good in about very good dust jacket with some chipping and tears, resulting some loss to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Black Boy
by Wright, Richard
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- Used
- Edition
- Book Club First Edition
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- 1945
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- Hardcover. Sewn binding is square and tight. Block and pages are clean and unmarked. Book appears to be mostly unread.
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Maysville, Georgia, USA
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£81.29
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Hardcover. 268 pp. Harper & Brothers, New York (1945). First Book Club Edition. First Printing thus. Book-of-the-Month Club insert pasted in on flyleaf. Small PO name and address sticker also on flyleaf. War Bonds endorsement by author on rear DJ flap. Clean, bright, unmarked copy. Straight, sharp boards with only minor rubbing of corners and spine ends. Some chipping and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
by WRIGHT, Richard
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- Used - Very Good
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- Fair
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- 1945
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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£101.61
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. First edition. Introductory note by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Octavo. [viii], 288 [1]pp. Publisher's blue cloth. Bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper. Slight stain on upper corner of back cover, gilt stamping on spine is rubbed (as usual), endpapers lightly toned, about very good in fair only dust jacket. The… Read more about this item Item Price
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Black Boy
by WRIGHT, Richard
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Published
- 1945
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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£121.93
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Previous owner's stamp on front fly, gilt on spine rubbed as usual, very good in about very good dust jacket with modest chipping and tears, mostly at the spine ends. Item Price
£121.93
Black Boy
by Richard Wright
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- Used
- Published
- 1947
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- Paperback
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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£1,219.35
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Paris: Gallimard, 1947. Paperback. Early Printing of the French Edition. 5.5 x 7.75in. 264pp. Publisher's wraps with original glassine covering. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: 'To Mlle. Renee Godin, With my best wishes, sincerely yours, Richard Wright. Feb. 15, 1952. Paris.' Signed by Wright during his last years in Paris having escaped there with… Read more about this item Item Price
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Black Boy (jeunesse noire). Traduit de l'américain par Marcel Duhamel en collaboration avec Andrée R. Picard
by WRIGHT, Richard
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st
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- 1947
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- Publisher's cream wrappers
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Glendale, California, USA
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£772.26
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FIRST EDITION of this first French translation, published in the Du monde collection. One of 110 numbered copies on pure Lafuma vellum (this being #91), the only printing on large paper. Black boy is one of the first novels written by blacks about their living conditions. The first American Edition was published by Harper s in 1945. This limited French… Read more about this item Item Price
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Black Boy
by Wright, Richard
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- Used - Very Good+
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- Very Good
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
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- 1945
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- Hardcover
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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£40.64
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 228pp; DJ price-clipped with slight edgewear & minor chipping, rear flap of DJ contains War Bonds ads, DJ protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+/VG condition. Book-of-the-Month Club insert laid in. Autobiography of… Read more about this item Item Price
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BLACK BOY A Record of Childhood and Youth
by Richard Wright
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- Used
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Published
- 1945
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- Hardcover
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Pomona, New York, USA
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£81.25
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New York: Harper & Brothers. 1945. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in Boards. Spine binding loose. Cuffing to spine and board edges. . Item Price
£81.25
Black Boy
by Wright, Richard
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- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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- 1st Edition. First Printing
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- 1945
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Palatine, Illinois, USA
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£89.42
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New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1945. 1st Edition. First Printing. 1945; First Edition No. 5761 Blue Boards with gilt design and printing on spine.. Dust Jacket has small tears at top and bottom of spines. Endpapers are beige with slight fading. Book interior is very bright. .Dust Jacket is not… Read more about this item Item Price
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BLACK BOY
by RICHARD WRIGHT
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- Used - GOOD
- Edition
- 9
- Published
- 1945
- Binding
- GOOD-75 YEARS OLD
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LAKE HAVASU CITY, Arizona, USA
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£8.12
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BLACK LIFE IN AMERICA -
CONDITIONS GROWTH FROM YOUTH TO MANHOOD AND ALL THE HAZARDS -
A WONDERFUL CHRONICLE OF LIFE SPENT IN A MINORITY- THE TRIALS AND JUDGMENT BEFALLS ON A PERSON OF COLOR IN AMERICA
PUBLISHED AT THE END OF WORLD WAR 11 IN 1945 Item Price
£8.12
Black Boy
by Richard Wright
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- Used - Very Good
- ISBN
- 9780061443084
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Swanton, Vermont, USA
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£6.10
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HarperCollins, 1998. PAPERBACK. Cover is sunned, soiled and worn. Remainder mark across the bottom page ends. Text is unmarked. No creases in the spine. Item Price
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Black Boy
by Wright, Richard
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1963
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- Mass Market Paperback
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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£22.31
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New American Library / Signet, 1963. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Book shows light wear to covers, one 1/4"" tear at bottom spine, very light edge wear.. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind, age-toned paper. Item Price
£22.31
Black Boy: A Record of Youth and Childhood (Picador Books)
by Wright, Richard
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- Used - Very Good
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- Paperback
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- 9780330306126
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GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, GBR
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£1.19
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Paperback. Very Good. Item Price
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Black Boy
by Richard Wright
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- Used - Acceptable
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- 2008
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- Paperback
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- 9780061443084
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Seattle, Washington, USA
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£5.24
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HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
£5.24
Black Boy: a record of childhood and youth [complete and unabridged]
by Wright, Richard, introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, cover art by James Avati
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- Used
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- 1951
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- Paperback
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San Francisco, California, USA
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£16.26
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New York: Signet, 1951. Paperback. 207p., introductory note, lightly-worn first printing stated of the Signet mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Signet 841. Item Price
£16.26
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
by Wright, Richard
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Later printing
- Published
- 1988
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780330306126
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Montmorillon, FRA
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£5.00
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London: Picador Classics, 1988. Later printing. Paperback. Very Good. 2nd printing of this trade paperback edition. Previous owner's initials neatly in ink on the half-title else a clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers.
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Black Boy
by Wright, Richard
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- Used
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- 1st thus (Book Club)
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- 1945
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Canterbury, Kent, GBR
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£425.00
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New York: Harper and Brothers, (1945). The scarce first Book Club edition. This is a very good copy. The dust wrapper has some light creasing throughout and some separation at the spine tips, typical of this fragile wartime production. The rear flap carries an advertisement for war bonds, written by the author, rumoured to be the only time this text… Read more about this item Item Price
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BLACK BOY : A Record of Childhood and Youth
by Richard Wright
- Condition
- Used
- Published
- 1945
- Binding
- Hardcover
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Pomona, New York, USA
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£150.35
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New York: Harper & Brothers. 1945. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Fair dust jacket. Dust jacket shows edge wear and is heavily chipped, most notably to spine's crown and heel. Creasing apparent at upper and lower edges of front panel with closed tears to lower edge. Chip and closed tear to upper edge of rear panel of… Read more about this item Item Price
£150.35
Black Boy
by Wright, Richard
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- Used - Acceptable
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780099285069
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GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, GBR
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£0.95
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Paperback. Acceptable. Item Price
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