Native by Richard Wright, First Edition (223 results)

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean and tight in standard very good condition. No inside marks noted. 8.4.41.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: slipcase fine. Stated first edition. NOT an ex library book. Book with dark red cloth binding. Clean pages, ribbon marker. Slipcase has no splits.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Library of America series. Book comes in its original slipcase. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0940450666. ISBN/EAN: 9780940450660. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 23081.

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No DJ. Book in fair shape. Binding is tight but spine and corners are frayed. A fine writer. Good reading copy.

Paperback. Condition: New. 1st. Bigger Thomas has grown up in Chicago's slums, reckless, angry and adrift.A respectable job with the affluent Dalton family provides hope but sets him on course for a catastrophic collision between his world and theirs. Hunted by citizen and police alike, and baited by prejudiced officials, Bigger finds himself the cause célèbre in an ever-narrowing endgame.First published in 1940, Native Son shocked readers with its candid depiction of violence and confrontation of racial stereotypes. It went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America.'In addition to being a masterpiece, a Great American Novel' Guardian'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' James BaldwinWITH AN AFTERWORD BY GARY YOUNGE.

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Book As New. NO notes or ANY markings. NO names. Remainder slash at bottom edge. DJ with long tape repaired slit along front spine edge. Else Very Fine NO other defects. Not clipped ($35) ; Library Of America; 916 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition in very good used condition. The Friends of the Bridgeport Public Library use these funds to promote literacy in the community and in the Bridgeport Public Schools.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition in original slipcase. Friends of the Bridgeport Public Library use these funds to promote literacy in the community and the Bridgeport public schools.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels"If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son." - Henry Louis Gates Jr."The most powerful American novel to appear since The Grapes of Wrath." --The New YorkerWhen it was first published in 1940, Native Son established Richard Wright as a literary star. In the decades since, Wright's masterpiece--hailed by Newsweek as "a novel of tremendous power and beauty"--has become a revered classic that remains as timely and relevant today as when it first appeared.Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Native Son is the story of Bigger Thomas, a young Black man caught in a downward spiral after killing a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Written with the distinctive rhythm of a modern crime story, this formidable work is both a condemnation of social injustice and an unsparing portrait of the Black experience in America, revealing the tragic effect of poverty, racism, and hopelessness on the human spirit. "I wrote Native Son to show what manner of men and women our 'society of the majority' breeds, and my aim was to depict a character in terms of thw living tissue and texture of daily consciousness," Wright explained.This edition of Native Son--the restored text established by the Library of America--is the novel as Wright intended it to be published. It also includes an essay by Wright titled, How "Bigger" was Born, along with notes on the text. Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the forces of poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that continue to shape society. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Name in ink on spine. No jacket. Light wear to couple corners.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Minor wear to this copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st ed, 2nd prtg,

Paperback. first PB. 794, good - very good, creases (RACIAL CRIME NOVEL), paperback,

STIFF PAPER ILLUSTRATED WRAPS. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: NO DUST JACKET AS ISSUED. 1st Edition. (4) + 5 - 399 + (1) PAGES. THERE IS MINIMAL SHELF WEAR OF THE BOOK'S EDGES. THE BOOK IS TIGHT AND CLEAN. THERE IS AN AFTERWORD WRITTEN BY RICHARD SULLIVAN. Size: 4 1/8" X 7" SIGNET PAPERBACK EDITION - THIRD PRINTIN.

Excellent shape. Slipcase instead of dust cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Light wear. Copyright 1940 by Richard Wright; Notes and chronology copyright 1991 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc.; Restored edition copyright 1993 by Ellen Wright; Introduction copyright 1993 by Arnold Rampersad.

hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! Like Brand NEW. No tears, highlighting or writing because it's never been used! May have minor shelf wear. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Previous owner's book plate on front paste down. Wright's classic story of life in the "most segregated city in America" Chicago, in the early 20th century.This outstanding novel tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black American youth living in utter poverty. Bigger lived in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. While not apologizing for Bigger's crimes, Richard Wright portrays a systemic inevitability behind them. Bigger's lawyer makes the case that there is no escape from this destiny for his client or any other black American, since they are the necessary product of the society that formed them and told them since birth who exactly they were supposed to be. "No American Negro exists," James Baldwin once wrote, "who does not have his private Bigger Thomas living in his skull." Frantz Fanon discusses this feeling in his 1952 essay "L'Expérience Vécue du Noir", or "The Fact of Blackness". "In the end," writes Fanon, "Bigger Thomas acts. To put an end to his tension, he acts, he responds to the world's anticipation." Wright based aspects of the novel on the 1938 arrest and trial of Robert Nixon, executed in 1939 following a series of "brick bat murders" in Los Angeles and Chicago. Wright's protest novel was an immediate best-seller, selling 250,000 hardcover copies within three weeks of its publication by the Book-of-the-Month Club on March 1, 1940. It was one of the earliest successful attempts to explain the racial divide in America in terms of the social conditions imposed on African-Americans by the dominant white society. It also made Wright the wealthiest black writer of his time and established him as a spokesperson for African-American issues, and the "father of Black American literature." As Irving Howe said in his 1963 essay "Black Boys and Native Sons," "The day Native Son appeared, American culture was changed forever. No matter how much qualifying the book might later need, it made impossible a repetition of the old lies . [and] brought out into the open, as no one ever had before, the hatred, fear, and violence that have crippled and may yet destroy our culture." The novel's treatment of Bigger and his motivations is an example of literary naturalism. First Edition A-P Second State binding. Along with Ellison's Invisible Man and Baldwin's Go Tell It On the Mountain, one of the indisputable mid-century classics of African-American literature.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued. 1st Edition. A Fine copy with a maroon cloth binding and fine slipcase. Still in the original unopened shrink wrap with the publisher's notes. Subscribers edition with no dust jacket as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: VG -. 1st. Hardcover / No jacket / Front endpaper stained / Hinge torn at title page but binding is solid.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with slight wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Cover corners & spine ends are moderately bumped & worn. Slight looseness to spine. Some foxing to inside cover & facing pg. A pretty nice copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Fine hardcover in burgundy cloth boards, as issued w/out dj, in a Fine slipcase. First Edition, First Printing. 936pp.

Condition: New. 2020. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . .

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Very rare first edition paperback of the groundbreaking novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. 1st. No Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Beautiful facsimile duplicate of the original FIRST EDITION hardcover book and Dust Jacket in a slipcase in AS NEW FINE condition Slipcase in new fine condition.Appears UNREAD.Bright clean tight.Boards and spine are straight // Binding is tight.//Pages are clean, legible, and bright // No previous owner names//No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No underlining. No highlighting// No foxing// Not Ex Library// Not a Book Club//No remainder mark.//We ship 5 days a week.Shelf1013.