Richard Wright. Stated first edition. Dust Jacket: Very Good. The jacket has all points of issue. An unclipped jacket with original price ($2.50) intact. Has all the codes: 5760 at bottom, back flap 5761 and back panel 2209, copyright page with 2-5 and M-T. In a mylar protective wrapper.
Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Harper & Brothers Publisher, 1945. Dark blue boards stamped with gold and red, with the gold decorative stamping. Some foxing on flyleaf pages, otherwise, no markings or writing in the book, 228 pp. Introductory notes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
This was Wright's fourth novel. Black Boy is a memoir detailing the authors youth in the South: Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, and his eventual move to Chicago, where he established his writing career and became involved with the Communist Party. He was the first African American author to write about racial issues.
