Messenger by Charles Wright, First Edition (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Very good ex-library copy with usual library markings, slightly cocked spine, and some toning in a good only dust jacket with a stain on the rear panel, tears, tape remnants, and rubbing. Author's first book. James Baldwin blurb.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good ++. 1st UK Edition. VG++, Shelfwear, Edgefoxing/VG++, PC, Chips, Tears, Perfs. 1st UK Edition. Drama. Scan on request.

First edition, first printing (stated). A near fine copy with all corner tips sharp; in a very good plus photo-pictorial dust jacket with several creases and a short tear to the upper front panel at the corner, a tiny tear to the lower back panel, cover rubbing, and minor nicking to the shelf edges. Original price ($3.95) intact on the upper corner of the front flap. The African-American author's first novel with positive reviews on the rear panel from James Baldwin, Lucy Freeman and Kay Boyle. "In The Messenger (1963), Wright draws extensively on his life. Realistically narrated in the first person by Charles Stevenson -- a light-skinned African American newcomer to Manhattan from small-town Missouri -- the novel dramatizes the isolation and alienation of those who fall prey to America's social, economic, and racial caste systems. Stevenson works as an office messenger and constantly finds himself on the edges of power, yet is utterly devoid of any. A man perceived as neither black nor white, "a minority within a minority," he drifts through the naturalistic city of New York, where victory and defeat are accepted "with the same marvelous indifference."--goodreads. Listed in Ian Young, THE MALE HOMOSEXUAL IN LITERATURE: A Bibliography (second edition) #4236. and Roger Austen's PLAYING THE GAME: The Homosexual Novel in America, page 201-203.

FIRST EDITION. Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs0.

Paperback. first edition. 716 near fine, unread paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper worn at edges and a litle soiled. Ink inscription on front endpaper.

Condition: VG. 1ST. FIRST CREST PRINTING, USUAL TANNING TO PAGES.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. 8vo, quarter white cloth over black paper boards, silver and grey titles, red top stain, 217pp. First printing. Unclipped dust jacket (3.95) with light rippling, creasing to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper, tape residue impressions to board and endpaper edges. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The debut novel by the unsung Black American writer, a semi autobiographical bildungsroman of a young man transplanted from Missouri to New York City. Dust jacket blurb by James Baldwin. A very good copy in mylar. .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Black paper over boards with white cloth and black and gray lettering on spine. Black and white DJ with white lettering. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1963, stated First Printing. 217 pages. In good condition. Head and foot of spine are bumped. Covers are a bit faded, but clean. DJ appears toned, with some shelf-wear, mostly limited to edges. Pages are free of marks and binding is strong.

8vo. vi+216pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. A very good copy. . First edition. Author's first book.

Original hardcover in jacket, first printing, book is solid and square. Book has been read and there is some bumping along the top board edges; some bumping lines across back covers; light age-toning, soiling to the white cloth spine. Mild reading wear, age-toning to the pages. About very good minus. Jacket is good to good plus with some rubbing, wear along edges -- few chips and tears -- and some soiling along spine. Comes in old protective mylar sleeve which has some rubbing and wear. Decent first printing. b2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 217 pages; 1963 Farrar, Straus & Company. HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Bound in cream quarter cloth over black paper boards, publisher's red top stain present though somewhat faded. Pictorial dust jacket shows light general toning with shelf rubbing and light stresses along the edges with a few tiny nicks to the top edge; $3.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Prior owner's several small tape reinforcements to the jacket rear surface along the top edge. Contents clean and bright, binding sound with no marks. Solid copy of Wright's first novel. VG/VG-.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A novel. The author's first book. Stated first printing. Small stain on fore edge, else very good in a very good (moderate edge wear with two small chips, age toning) dust jacket. B0006AYKSC.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. 217pp. White spine over black boards, black and gray titles on spine. Slight sunning to upper edge of front board, previous owner's name in ink on front paste-down, otherwise book is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket crisp and unclipped in mylar sleeve. Wright's debut, hailed by James Baldwin as the arrival of a notable writer. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. An autobiographical novel about a young African American man who moves to New York City after serving in the Korean War. Chipping to the spine ends and corners of the dust jacket. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, stated First Edition, about Fine in Good D.J., chip top edge obliterating the r in Messenger, and general chipping and some tears. LONG BLURB BY JAMES BALDWIN.(VVbrtv2/1).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in a very slightly spine-toned else about fine dust jacket. Author's first book. James Baldwin blurb.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Farrar, Straus & Co., New York, 1963, Hardcover with dust jacket, Very good condition.