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Native Son by Richard Wright
by Wright, Richard
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/very good -
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1987. Hardcover. Fine/very good -. The Book-of-the-Month Club Classic facsimile reprint of the Harper & Brothers 1940 First Edition, with the pamphlet containing the new introduction by David Bradley. xi, [1], 359 p.; 21 cm. Dark grey cloth with gilt-on-black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The new introduction is a separate, stapled, unpaginated 12-page pamphlet. Scarce with the new introduction. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; closed 1-cm. tear from upper edge of front section and same from upper edge of back section; chipped at ends of spine; clean and bright. The pamphlet is in Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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Details
- Seller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 008800
- Title
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Author
- Wright, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Book-of-the-Month Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Classic Books and Ephemera
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
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Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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