Lamming George Introduction Richard Wright (2 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. New York: Collier Books, 1975. viii, 341 pp. 18 x 11 cm. Stiff paper wrappers printed light green with illustration in black and green and lettering in red and black. Second printing of this edition. Light sunning to spine, with some creasing to upper corner of rear cover and some light wear to bottom corner of front cover. Stamp across tail edge of text block. Previous owner's name in red pencil on half-title page, with one underlined word and one circled word, also in red pencil, on the first and third pages of the introduction. Interior otherwise clean. Binding sound, with one vertical crease to spine. . Soft Cover. Very Good.

First American edition of the author's first novel, which was championed by eminent figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, inscription to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Leo Manso. Endpapers and frontispiece by Denis Williams. Introduction by Richard Wright. Barbadian writer George Lammingâs first and much acclaimed autobiographical novel, In the Castle of My Skin, follows the events in a young boy's life in the 1930s in Carrington Village, Barbados, where the author was born and raised. The novel won a Somerset Maugham Award and was championed by eminent figures Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright, the latter writing an introduction to the book's US edition. "A striking piece of work, a rich and memorable feat of imaginative interpretation" (The Spectator).