Uncle Tom’s Children.
WRIGHT, Richard.
Uncle Tom’s Children.
First Edition of Richard Wright's Uncle Tom's Children; Signed by Him
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938.
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First edition, first printing with B-N on the copyright page of the author’s first book. Octavo, original red cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “with good wishes Richard Wright 3/14/40.” In good condition.
Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the postslavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. Published in 1938, this was the first book from Wright, who would continue on to worldwide fame as the author of the novels Native Son and Black Boy.
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