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Richard Wright: Native Son. First Edition.

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Richard Wright: Native Son. First Edition.
<B>Richard Wright. </B></I><B><I>Native Son</B></I></B></I><B>.</B></I> New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1940. <BR>First edition, in the first issue green and yellow dust jacket. Octavo. 359 pages.<BR><BR>Blue cloth boards with gray and red labels on front cover and spine; deckled fore-edge. A truly magnificent copy with no discernible wear of any kind to the boards or textblock. Dust jacket is unfaded and shows just the lightest wear at edges; small chip at upper recto corner. An exceptional copy of a groundbreaking novel, considered by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in the <I>New York Times</B></I> as "The single most influential shaping force in black literary history."<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)