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NY: Samuel French, 1980. Revised edition. 8vo, pp. 99. Paper wraps with scenes from the play. A nice copy.
Native Son by Wright, Richard, And Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (Introduction By) - 1940
by Wright, Richard, And Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (Introduction By)
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Native Son
by Wright, Richard, And Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (Introduction By)
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap by arr. w/ Harper & Brothers, 1940. Complete and Unabridged. "Author's Edition". No price listed.. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Half-inch cloth edge tear to top right, book. Corner bump. Minor sun-fade at spine edges. Closed tears to jacket.. 1 Reprint. 359 p. Tan cloth covered boards. Rust brown title box, spine; black titles. Stamped edge border. DJ in aqua, yellow; dark blue titles. Dark red top page edges. Less common edition, African American Novel: Urban family member Bigger is chauffeur to a wealthy suburban white philanthropist, some of whose profits originate on the backs of those who live in Chicago's tenements. Bigger is headed for jail from the first chapter. Wright prefaces the novel with "How 'Bigger' was Born", pp. xiii-li (new material, this edition). This reprint edition stops at p. 359. The Contents offer "Some Notable Comments on 'Native Son'" beginning page 361; there are no pages removed. The DJ spine and front however is decorated by streaming review commentary.
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- Book Condition Used - Good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Half-inch cloth edge tear to top right, book. Corner bump. Minor sun-fade at
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- Edition Complete and Unabridged. "Author's Edition". No pr
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Grosset & Dunlap by arr. w/ Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1940
- Keywords Chicago|African American|Urban|Suburban|Prejudice|Crime|Inequality|Black|Tenements
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NATIVE SON; A biography of a young American. From the novel by Richard Wright (A play in eleven scenes...)
by GREEN, Paul, and Richard Wright
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- Revised edition
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780573612916 / 0573612919
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts, United States
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Native Son [The Playbill, Studebaker Theatre]
by [Wright, Richard, and Paul Green, Directed and Produced By Orson Welles and John Houseman]
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Pasadena, California, United States
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Chicago: Studebaker Theatre / Paul H Fieberg, 1941. First Edition . Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine. 9 1/8" x 6 1/4. Photographs. 12 pp. Playbill . only.
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Native Son (the Biography of a Young American). A Play in Ten Scenes
by Green, Paul, and Wright, Richard
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Woodstock, New York, United States
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New York: Harper, 1941. Spine ends very slgihtly worn.. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good.
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Native Son - A Play
by GREEN, Paul and WRIGHT, Richard
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- near fine
- Hardcover
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- Very Good +
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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NY: Harpers, 1941. Book is bound in red cloth, stamped in gold. The first edition (stated) of this play based on the important novel of the same name by Wright. Dustwrapper is bright and clean and shows two minor chips to bottom edge. Overall, a great copy of a rather difficult book to find in the first edition. 148 pp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good +.
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Native Son: a Play in Ten Scenes
by Green, Paul and Richard Wright
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- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
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Northridge, California, United States
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NY: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth hardcover. Stated first edition with C-Q code. The years of Wright's life (1908-1960) have been inked to the title page next to his name; else tight and unmarked; trace rubbing to cloth edges. The DJ in mylar is sunned to spine, chipped, slighty edgeworn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Native Son (The Biography of a Young American): A Play in Ten Scenes
by WRIGHT, Richard and Paul Green
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1941. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Front fly tone, presumably from a clipping, a little foxing on the titlepage, near fine in near fine second issue dust jacket with additional reviews, and a little rubbing. A handsome copy of a scarce title, the play adaptation of Wright's novel.
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