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The Viking Press, 1942. Hard cover. Good/No jacket. Second printing. Cover cloth is scuffed and cover corners are worn. Spine is tanned, but text is legible. Spine is worn along edges. Binding is tight. Blind stamps from previous owner on front endpaper and half-title page, not covering text. Pages are tanned, but otherwise clean and unmarked.

New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Third Printing. Hardcover. Good (Ex-Library with sticker on lower DJ spine and to rear pastedown; DJ is heavily chipped and worn/toned/foxed; boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean but toned with occasionaly foxing/smudging; textblock is cracked.). B&W illustrated DJ with red, black and light brown lettering; beige cloth boards with red and beige lettering; 152 pp.; richly illustrated. 12 Million Black Voices combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Farm Security Administration files compiled during the Great Depression. The photographs include works by such giants as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein. From crowded, run-down farm shacks to Harlem storefront churches, the photos depict the lives of black people in America - their misery and weariness under rural poverty, their spiritual strength, and their lives in northern ghettos. Wright's accompanying text eloquently narrates the story of… Read More

New York: Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover [quarto] cream cloth boards, red-framed spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 151 pp. Very Good, shelf wear, rear board corner stain, bruised spine; fair dust jacket, spine chipped, edges worn and creased, cover title section displaced, rear cover section displaced, fairly worn. Photo direction by Edwin Rosskam. First Edition of Wright's scarce treatise on the history of Black people in the United States, illustrated profusely with black and white photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam.

Viking Press. No DJ. . Fine. Hardcover. 1946.

New York: Viking Press, 1946. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Third printing (retaining 1941 on titlepage, but actually 1946). Photo-Direction by Edwin Rosskam. Quarto. About fine in very good or better dust jacket with a bit if rubing and tiny nicks and tears. A handsome copy of this beautiful photographically illustrated essay about the black experience, with striking images photos by Dorothea Lange, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Ben Shahn, and others, with text by Wright.

New York: Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Text by Richard Wright, Photo-direction by Edwin Rosskam. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), heavily rubbed and with multiple chips, tears, and creases, tidemarks at the flap folds. Oatmeal cloth, lightly toned, with a red ink panel and lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a black top stain, lacking the front endpaper, tidemarks at the fore-edges of the pages. Wright's history of the Black experience in America that "accepts as basic and centrally historical those materials of Negro life identified with the countless back millions who made up the bulk of the slave population during the sevententh, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries; those teeming black millions who endured the phyiscal and spiritual ravages of serfdom; those legions of nameless blacks who felt the shock and hope of sudden emancipation; those terrified black folk who withstood the brutal wrath of the Ku Klux Klan, and who fled the cotton and… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. Very Good Plus/Near Fine. Moving, memorable and disturbing photos by some of the greats, including Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, etc. 4to. 26 by 18 cm. 152 pp. Darkening to parts of the cloth, with some spotting/foxing spread about but inconspicuous given how it blends into the material. DJ neatly price clipped but otherwise is well preserved, with perhaps a touch of soil, and now protected by mylar. Interior of book is clean.

New York: The Viking Press, 1941. First edition of this powerful work by the author of The Native Son, featuring photographs by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed Richard Wright on the front free endpaper. Very good in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Photo-direction by Edwin Rosskam. Uncommon signed.