Black Boy.
First Edition of Richard Wright's Black Boy
Black Boy.
WRIGHT, Richard.
$150.00
Item Number: 133489
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945.
First edition of Wright’s memoir of his early days. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. With introductory notes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
Black Boy is a memoir by American author Richard Wright, detailing his youth in the South: Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, and his eventual move to Chicago, where he establishes his writing career and becomes involved with the Communist Party in the United States.
