Search Results: richard wright the life and times by rowley hazel

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New York: Owl Books, 2001. 626pp. Index, Notes. Sticker remnant bacl, wear extremities, rubbing.. Paperback. VG-.

Henry Holt and Company, 2001 Ex-library hardcover, with usual stamps, Title page has been neatly torn out, corner of first endpaper is clipped. Dust jacket in library mylar.

Publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth back-strip over red boards, octavo, pp. x, 626. Illustrations. Very Good with just light shelf wear. Dust jacket Good with light shelf wear and safely stowed now in a protective new sheet of archival Brodart. This is a tome, indeed.

Henry Holt and Co., 2001 Remainder mark on bottom edge. Unclipped dust jacket. Clean interior. Tight, square binding. 16 pages of black and white photographs. 626 pages.. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Henry Holt and Co, 2001. Hardcover. The first full-scale biography of the author of Black Boy and Native Son -- written with the dramatic drive of a novel. "Writing," Richard Wright once said, "is my way of being a free man." In this authoritative and engaging biography, Hazel Rowley chronicles Wright's extraordinary journey from a sharecropper's shack in Mississippi to international renown as a writer, fiercely independent thinker, and outspoken critic of racism. The child of the fundamentalist South with an eighth-grade education, a self-taught intellectual in the working-class Communist Party of the 1930s, a black man married to a white woman, and an expatriate in France after World War II, Wright was always an outsider. Skillfully interweaving quotations from Wright's writings, Rowley portrays a man who transced the times in which he lived and sought to reconcile opposing cultures in his work. She draws on recently discovered material to shed new light on Wright's relationships with Langston… Read More

New York: Holt, 2001. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Illustrated in black and white. x, 626 pages. Thick 8vo, black cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Henry Holt, (2001). Near fine in a near fine dust wrapper. Review copy with press materials inserted.<br/> <br/>

New York: Henry Holt, [2001]. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter black cloth and red paper boards with the title stamped in gilt on the spine.Signed by the author on title page.

Henry Holt and Co, 2001-08-14. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x2. First edition! Dust jacket and book are clean with minimal wear. Binding is good, pages are bright and crisp with no marks or notations. HB HS

Henry Holt & Company, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Photographs. Arguably the best, most readable biography of the author of NATIVE SON. With an excellent Wright bibliography. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart cover.

US: Henry Holt and Co., 2001. Henry Holt and Co. 2001 First Edition NL with 1 Fine/Fine DJ Black spine with gold lettering and red boards. Bright pages with two photo illustrated sections. LARGE HEAVY ITEM.. First Edition NL with 1. Hardcover. Fine/Fine DJ. No Exp.

Henry Holt, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Photograhs. With an excellent bibliography. Possibly the definitive biography of the author of Native Son. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.