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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… Read More

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.