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American hunger : an autobiography / by Richard Wright ; with an introductory note by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.

Accession number
PML 187948
Creator
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Published
New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, [1944]
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First 8 chapters only.
Library's copy housed in black cloth clamshell box.
Library's copy housed in makeshift boards tied with ribbons, with typed paper label on front: "AMERICAN HUNGER (an autobiography) by RICHARD WRIGHT, This title was never used and the book was eventually published under the title BLACK BOY, Harper & Brothers, 1945."
Printed on rectos only.
Description
156 leaves ; 24 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on inside front makeshift board: Richard Wright, Book Proofs.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Unbound sheets.
Classification
Department