Richard Nathaniel WRIGHT (1908-1960). Black Boy a record ... NY & London: [undated]. Early issue.

Richard Nathaniel WRIGHT (1908-1960). Black Boy a record of childhood and youth. [Introductory note by Dorothy Canfield Fisher]. New York & London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [latest copyright date on verso of title 1945]. Octavo (8 1/8 x 4 ¾ inches; 206 x 121 mm). Pp. [i-viii; 1-]3-228[-2]. Publisher's blue cloth, upper cover blocked in red, spine blocked in red and light blue, original dust-jacket (dust-jacket in pieces, backstrip lacking, other tears and voids, see images, all preserved in mylar wrapper).

An early issue. “Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.” (Richard Wright).

‘Richard Wright was an African American writer and poet who published his first short story at the age of 16. Later, he found employment with the Federal Writers' Project and received critical acclaim for Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of four stories. He is well-known for his 1940 bestseller Native Son and his 1945 autobiography, Black Boy. …

In 1945, Wright published Black Boy, which offered a moving account of his childhood and youth in the South. It also depicts extreme poverty and his accounts of racial violence against black people.’ (biography.com).

Francis Dobo: the “epitome of a 20th Century intellectual” Hungarian born Francis F. Dobo (1908-1998) was an important figure in the world of publishing, contemporary literature and photography for over half a