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Shelton, Connecticut: The First Edition Library, 1990. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x5x1. A facsimile reproduction of the original edition. Includes publisher's slipcase and insert. Tiny closed tear on rear jacket edge, jacket spine a bit faded. 1990 Hard Cover. xi, 359 pp. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo. NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. First thus with new introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher and new background material by Richard Wright. 8vo. Cloth binding, 359 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket, protected with a mylar cover..