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Harper and Row, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

GALLIMARD JEUNE, 1979. 43x518x310cm. 1979. Relié. 352 pages. Jeunesse Children's Children's / Teenage fiction and true stories Lecture 6-9 ans Teenage fiction and true stories Très bon état - légères marques de lecture et/ou de stockage mais du reste en très bon état- expédié soigneusement depuis la France

Gallimard, 1979. Good. Former library book. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Soiling on the side. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.

Gallimard, 1979. Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Soiling on the side. Stamp or mark on the inside cover page. Damaged dust jacket. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.

EDITIONS LIVRE DE POCHE N° 811 - 812, 1962. Paperback. Good. Signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Le livre de poche, 1964. in12. 1964. Broché.

FIRST EDITION of this first French translation, published in the Du monde collection. One of 110 numbered copies on pure Lafuma vellum (this being #91), the only printing on large paper. Black boy is one of the first novels written by blacks about their living conditions. The first American Edition was published by Harper s in 1945. This limited French Edition is the scarcest of all the issues. Housed in a cloth slipcase / chemise with leather label.

Paris: Gallimard, 1947. First French Edition. First Impression, a review copy, with S.P. printed at upper left corner of rear wrapper. Octavo (20.75cm); original printed wrappers and publisher's glassine overlay; [13],14-264,[4]pp. Inscribed by Wright on the half-title page to French philosopher and intellectual Maurice Merleau-Ponty, above a brief inscription by translator Marcel Duhamel. Slight forward lean, some light wear and handling, with a tiny chip to base of spine, and the usual tanning to text edges, with some tiny nicks and tears to same; Very Good in a Very Good+ glassine. Wright's fourth book, a moving and shocking autobiography of race relations, growing up in the South, and his eventual move to Chicago at age 19, where he established his writing career and became involved with the Communist Party. He moved to Paris in 1946, and became a French citizen the following year. While there he befriended fellow expatriate writers James Baldwin and Chester Himes, and was drawn to existentialism… Read More