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New York: Harpers, 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first issue dark blue binding. About fine with light bump at one corner and offsetting from a clipping, in a very good or better first issue dust jacket with some scuffs and small stains on the spine and rear panel. Housed in a custom quarter morocco and marbled papercovered boards clamshell case. This copy Inscribed to Ralph D. Hartman, president of the Cleveland Photographic Society and avid book collector, with his bookplate on the front pastedown: "To - Ralph D. Hartman 'Freedom belongs to the strong ... ' Sincerely, Richard Wright. 2/19/41 Brooklyn. N.Y." One of the handful of great classics of 20th Century fiction, increasingly difficult to find inscribed.

New York: Harpers, 1940. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition, first issue dark blue binding. Slightest foxing on preliminaries else about fine in very good first issue dust jacket with a long internally repaired tear on the rear panel, small nicks, and a modest split at the top of the front flap fold. A presentable copy of one of the handful of great classics of 20th Century fiction.

8vo. New York & London: Harper and Brothers Publisher's, 1940. 8vo, xi, 359 pp. Ttitle-page printed in red and black. Original dark blue cloth with lettering in red, price-clipped jacket with moderate wear and chipping and some old tape repairs, protected by mylar. § First edition, first printing with publisher's A-P code on the copyright page; first state dust-jacket with no blurb on the spine. A milestone in 20th century literature. As Irving Howe wrote in his 1963 essay "Black Boys and Native Sons": "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. No matter how much qualifying the book might later need, 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." Over 250,000 copies were sold in the first few weeks; the first issue (as here) is very scarce in any condition. Blockson 76: "Native Son ranks with such American novels as An American… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First edition, first printing with A-P below the editions statement. Title page printed in red and black. xi, 359 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth with some rubbing to front cover, rear cover with some rubbing and soiling, spine cocked; unclipped dust jacket (price $2.50) in green and white, with single spaced blurb on front but not side panel, faded as usual, with some chipping to foot of spine and around foot of flaps, general rubbing with some light chipping along top edge. First edition, first printing with A-P below the editions statement. Title page printed in red and black. xi, 359 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare Variant Issue Jacket. A landmark work in African American fiction, which became the first Book of the Month Club selection by an African-American writer, selling 250,000 copies in its first three weeks on the market, propelling Wright to fame, and a lauded dramatic adaptation was directed by Orson Welles on Broadway the following years. A RARE VARIANT DUST JACKET.

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers. 1940. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Publisher's original navy blue cloth with titles blocked in grey and red to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing and bumping to the extremities. The contents, with a few foxing spots to the edge of the front and rear endpaper are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked first printing dustwrapper that has several short closed tears with associated creasing, a chip to the upper edge of the rear panel where is meets the spine, and another, smaller, to the top edge of the front panel. The colour remains uniformly bright and without the fading of the spine so often encountered. Not price-clipped ($2.50 to the upper front flap). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in second state near fine jacket with sunning to the spine and light edgewear. The second state jacket features a blurb on the spine, not found in the first. Laid in is the business card of Harper & Brothers book agent William H. Rose, Jr.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. First edition, first issue with "A - P" on the copyright page. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. An exceptional presentation. 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).

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. First edition, first issue binding with "A - P" on the copyright page. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. 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).

New York: Harper, 1940. First Edition. Review copy with the publisher’s dated notice laid in. Fine in a very good dust jacket which is chipped at head of spine. The play version of Wright’s landmark novel brought to the New York stage by Orson Welles to great acclaim.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. [True] Stated First (SD) with "A-P" below First Edition on copyright page edition. Original blue cloth with red, gray and blue labels uniquely rebound in-house by KTB in acid free J. Hewit Red and blue Cawburn goat retaining original top board label for book with 5 raised bands and original spine label for slipcase spine. Triangle motif on top and bottom board and slipcase slide. 8vo. pp. xi, [1] blank, 359. Near Fine/Lacks jacket/Fine. Light overall toning to pages, no ownership. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Original end papers were washed and re-inserted with new complimentary Dodin marbled end papers and slipcase base in red blue and gray. A unique red, 'white' and lblue gift of Wright's explosive and gritty period novel examining racism in America...fear, flight and fate..

New York, Harper & Brothers. 1940. . First edition, first printing (stated), Book Club issue in the specially designed dust jacket; 8vo; publisher's grey cloth, titles to spine gilt on a black ground, grey topstain, with the pictorial dust jacket; a beautiful copy in the somewhat creased and tanned dust jacket. The book club issue - from the sheet and in the same binding as all the first printings - may be distinguished by the much more attractive pictorial dust jacket issued specially for the book club.

NY: Harper, 1940, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Published in New York by Harper & Brothers in 1940. First Edition is stated on copyright page. Book near fine except for slight wearing on spine ends and corners, fading and discoloration (spotting) on paste downs, free end pages, and randomly throughout inside pages. DJ (facsimile) fine. DJ price reads "2.50.

Victor Gollancz, 1940. ~Dustwrapper very scarce. Text browned. Dustwrapper faded & edgeworn with old brown paper repairs to rear & small tears to rear spine edge, but unclipped & protected in removable clear plastic sleeve. Original blue cloth, faded on spine. No ownership marks. Hinges uncracked but slightly slack. ~Robust packaging.. 1st ed 1st imp. Hardback. Good/Good. 459pp. Spine leans forward. Text unmarked.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. 359 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. A section is clipped out of the ffep. Page edges are deckled and lightly darkened. Head edges dyed with black publisher's stain. Bound in grey cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Lightly faded on the spine. Lightly worn around the edges and corners. Grey dustjacket in good condition. Worn around the edges with chips and tears. 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING. "A-P" code on the copyright page. VG/G. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Shelton, CT: The First Edition Library - FEL. Facsimile edition. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket in a Near Fine slipcase. lightly sunned spine. Facsimile Edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Original dust jacket protected by archival Brodart cover. All domestic orders shipped protected in a Box. .

New York: Harper and Brothers Publishing, 1940. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Wright's classic story of life in the "most segregated city in America" Chicago, in the early 20th century. Book has gray cover and in very good + condition, except for the black and gold printing on spine only which is rubbed and missing 3 letters, spine ends are bumped, but corners are straight and pointed. Book had a label , possibly an ex-libris or library label removed from front paste-down, else VG+. jacket is in VG condition and is price clipped.Spine ends and rear fold are chipped. Saying all that it is a quite nice collectible. First edition with A-P under First edition.

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1940. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good- in boards. A few stains to boards. A few markings to front pastedown and FEP. Stated First Edition, with publisher's code "A-P". ; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First Edition (Book Club Edition). 8vo. DJ price clipped.

Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Australian edition. Very good with cocked spine, owner's bookplate, owner's signature, and foxing to endpapers and page edges in good dustwrapper with long tears and tape repairs to spine, age-toning to back panel, but a bright, lovely front panel. Along with Ellison's *Invisible Man* and *Baldwin's Go Tell It On the Mountain*, one of the indisputable mid-century classics of African-American literature.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1940. First Edition ~1st Printing. Hardcover. very good in professional reproduction dust jacket, in fresh mylar cover; gentle rubbing/bumping to board edges, minor abrasions to topstain, mild rubbing to title on cloth spine else a tight square unmarked copy in mint reproduced jacket; stated first edition with A-P