HOW "BIGGER" WAS BORN
by Richard Wright
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- Seller
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Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Pamphlet. Very Good +/Very Good +. The story of Native Son, one of the most significant novels of our time, and how it came to be written. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has light shelf wear. Light soiling to lower edge of front cover; otherwise, covers are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Clear plastic dust jacket is clean and unmarked.
Synopsis
This collection combines stories set in Welty's special province, the rural South, with stories having a European locale. This gives a wider range to her fiction and demonstrates the remarkable talent of one of the finest short-story writers of our time. "Humorous, piquant, graceful" (Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Sewanee Review).
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Details
- Seller
- Atlanta Vintage Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 64645
- Title
- HOW "BIGGER" WAS BORN
- Author
- Richard Wright
- Format/Binding
- Pamphlet
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- African American Studies
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.