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American Hunger
by WRIGHT, Richard
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20595
- Title
- American Hunger
- Author
- WRIGHT, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publisher's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Bookseller catalogs
- CPUSA; African-Americana;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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