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Twelve million black voices : a folk history of the Negro in the United States of America / by Richard Wright ; with photos by Edwin Rosskam.

Accession number
PML 187961
Creator
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Published
London : Lindsay Drummond Limited, 1947.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First English edition.
"English edition first published 1947"--Title page verso.
"The photographs in this book--with the exception of a few otherwise credited--were selected from the files of the Farm Security Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture"--Page 149.
Description
152 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Former owner's signature in ink on front inside pastedown: Gordon Heath [rudimentary drawing of a guitar in pink ink]; author's inscription in ink on front flyleaf: Richard Wright, Sincerely yours March 10, 1953, Paris.
Provenance
Gordon Heath; Carter Burden.
Binding
Brown cloth stamped in gilt on spine with photographic illustration dust jacket designed by John Heartfield.
Classification
Department