Wig by Charles Wright, First Edition (9 results)

Condition: Fair. 1968. First Printing. 145 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges. Small tear to top edge of front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Jacket art by Milton Glaser. Tape residue and abrasions on boards, rear hinge cracked, owner name and glue residue on front endpapers, good only in a near fine dust jacket with modest edgewear.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. soft cover in good condition,stated-first printing december 1968.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first printing 1966. Very good (trace damp staining spine base) in a very good dust jacket (not price-clipped; some front fold scuffs and trace damp staining spine base). Despite noted flaws, this copy presents well; bright, clean, straight. In mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Teal cloth spine with white lettering over black paper-covered boards, embossed with heads, under Milton Glaser dust jacket, yellow endpapers. Fine condition; dust jacket is price-clipped else fine. Ishmael Reed has a wonderful retrospective of Charles Wright, dated Sept. 6 2019 (I found it on LitHub) which will introduce you to this black & bisexual author who rejected so much of the fame that helped other authors (in Reed's article, specifically James Baldwin) rise to the top. Wright did not want to be at the top and rejected tokenism altogether.

Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. 179 pp. Wright is also the author of The Mesenger.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 215pp. Turquoise spine over black boards. Design blindstamped to both boards. Tape ghosts on front and rear board, patch of glue residue on rear endpaper. White titles on spine. Square, clean copy, first printing stated on copyright page. Dust jacket crisp and unclipped. Milton Glaser jacket art, design by Patricia de Groot. Wright's mid-60s provocation, cited by Dwight Garner as one of the 22 funniest novels since Catch-22. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 179 pages; 1966 Farrar, Straus & Giroux. HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound in turquoise blue quarter cloth over black paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. Boards embossed with a stylized head-and-neck design, each side bearing a different hair pattern for the titular "wig. " A bright, clean copy with just a trace of handling. In the original pictorial dust jacket designed by Milton Glaser (then of Push Pin Studios) , unclipped with the publisher's $3.95 issue price present on the front flap. Jacket crisp and unfaded, showing only minimal surface evidence. Wright's second novel (following The Messenger, 1963) and his best-known work, The Wig is a surreal, satirical, and darkly comic exploration of race and class in America. Its jagged narrative and biting humor drew comparisons to Ralph Ellison and Ishmael Reed, and it remains a landmark of Black experimental fiction of the 1960s. NF/NF.