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"Freedom belongs to the strong" (from Wright's inscription). WRIGHT, Richard (1908–1960). Uncle Tom's Children. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with titles lettered in gilt (sunning to spine; some soiling to paper edges). Fourth edition. INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT WITH AN AUTOGRAPHED QUOTATION SIGNED: "To Charlotte Rosenbaum / 'Freedom belongs to the strong' / Sincerely, Richard Wright / 7/8/40 / Chicago." Originally published with four novellas; two more were added when the book was reprinted in 1940. Book #Cv2302. $1550. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

SIGNED/Inscribed by Shaw, affirming this "the first edition in book form." Very rare First Edition Association Copy of Shaw's novel, An Unsocial Socialist. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1887. Octavo, original scarlet cloth. Housed in custom cloth slipcase by Brentano, famed NYC Fifth Ave bookstore with Brentano's original description laid in..Shaw began his literary career by ghosting music criticism and writing unsuccessful novels, of which this is the fifth written and the first published. "During his first nine years in London Shaw calculated that he earned less than 10 pounds by his pen" (Drabble, 892). An Unsocial Socialist was serialized in To-Day ("Monthly Magazine of Scientific Socialism"), with no payment to Shaw, between March and December, 1884. First state, with "Cashel Byron's Profession etc etc" printed on title page. This copy inscribed by Shaw to his first bibliographer, Maurice Holmes. Inscription in full reads: "4 Whitehall Court, London, SWI 23rd November 1928. Dear… Read More