Wretched Earth by Fanon Frantz, First Edition (8 results)

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Nineteenth Printing. The aged textblock appears unread; Covers lightly edge and corner worn and rubbed; From the front cover: "The Handbook For the Black Revolution That is Changing The Shape of the World." 316p., plus ads. Size: 12mo - over 6 " 7 " Tall. Mass Market Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon Grove Press First Edition, First Printing 1963, Good book, rubbing to extremities, pen annotations and underlining on ~15 pages limited to first chapter only. Paperclip mark to top of four pages. Owner's contact info in pen on front pastedown and rear endpapers. Good jacket, chipping to spine and foot corners, several "1 inch tears and creases to top and bottom of rear jacket, some tape along bottom of rear jacket Prior owner's name and some underlining to front flap. Rear flap looks like it has some tape residue.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First UK. VG/VG. 8vo. original black cloth gilt (prev. owners' names to FFE, slight offsetting to endpapers, some biro underlining and occ. notes in text) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, rubbed & nicked); pp. 256 (last blank). A very good copy.

First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 255 pages. A book that deals with the negative effects of colonization.Features a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre, translated from the French by Constance Farrington. A very good plus copy in cloth boards with some minor wear and some faint spotting to the bottom edge of the pages and in a very good dust jacket with a triangular chip to the top of the rear panel near the spine, creases to the front and rear flaps and some other minor wear. Still, a nice copy of this very important book that is fairly uncommon.

First printing. Scarce first US edition of this foundational anti-colonial text by a Black psychiatrist this copy once owned by Dorris Funnye Innis, a writer and editor for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH is an indispensable text of Black activism, written by "the most influential anticolonial thinker of his time" (Jansen and Osterhammel, 165). Frantz Fanon dictated the text to his wife Josie after his expulsion from Algeria, when he refused to continue to provide medical aid to French colonial soldiers. Bringing together psychology and philosophy, Fanon presents an overview of the cultural and physical damage that are at the heart of colonialism, and advocates for violent resistance: "The colonized man finds his freedom in and through violence" (67). He identifies non-violent resistance as a product of colonialism itself, "an attempt to settle the colonial problem around a green baize table" (49). The founders of the Black Power Movement and the Black Panther Party directly quoted THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH in official publications and manifestos, and more recently, an anti-colonial climate activism group selected its name based on the work. This first US edition of THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH is a particularly evocative example of the book's influence. This copy was owned by Dorris Funnye Innis, civil rights activist and editor of CORE's house magazine as well as their RIGHTS AND REVIEWS. Raised in South Carolina to parents of Gullah heritage, Innis went on to be part of two important CORE delegations to Africa in the 1970s. She also wrote and published widely for the likes of THE NEW YORK TIMES and WOMEN'S WORLD. A beautiful copy with exceptional activist provenance. 8'' x 5.25''. Original brown cloth boards. Original unclipped ($5.00) black, white, and yellow typographical dust jacket, designed by Roy Kuhlman. 256 pages. Ownership signature "D Innis" penned to front free endpaper. Jacket has a few small closed tears, some chipping, edgewear. Book has mild shelfwear to extremities. Several pages dog-eared, presumably by Innis. Else clean and sound throughout. Near fine in a very good jacket.

Hardcover. First edition. First British edition. 255 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine, top edge foxed, in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, rubbed and a little worn along edges, slight creasing to top of front panel,unclipped (36 s net). A foundational work of post-colonial theory by the late West Indian-born psychiatrist and public intellectual.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Grove Press, New York, 1963.FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Unread. Unmarked. Not price-clipped ($5.00). Beautiful copy.

Translated from the French by Constance Farrington. First UK edition. 8vo. 255, [1] pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (faint partial offsetting to endpapers, just a hint of faint spotting to edges; jacket slightly edge worn with some minor chipping to tips of spine and corners, notwithstanding a very good copy overall). London, MacGibbon & Kee. Born in Martinique, the multi-talented Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a trained psychiatrist, political radical, and Pan-Africanist. He was a vocal supporter of the Algerian War of Independence and was a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front. He dided of cancer at the age of only 31. Posthumously published, The Wretched Earth (first published as Les damnés de la terre in French in 1961) was 'widely hailed as the most passionate and brilliant analysis of the process of decolonization' (Burke), it is one of the most important and widely-read of the books published during the post-war independence movements. 'Fanon demonstrates how violence in the colonized countries in the Cold War World reflects the violent relations that develop between capitalism and socialism, and shows how violence affords a colonial people its first sense of community. This, his most famous manifest, was written against the background of his Algerian and African experience' (Blockson). Blockson 101, 92; Burke III, E., 'Frantz Fanon's 'The Wretched of the Earth'' in Daedalus, Vol. 105, No. 1 (Winter, 1976), p.127.