Accession number
PML 187952
Creator
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Published
New York : Harper & Brothers, 1954.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Includes index (pages 353-358).
Description
xv, 358 pages : portrait, facsimile, map ; 22 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's inscription in ink on half title page: To - Hélène Gaubert -- This book is hard, but no harder than the situation merits... The foundations of the Western World today rests upon Africa and Africa is quicksand... There's a big job to be done in Africa and I hope that Europe can keep honest Africans to do that job - Sincerely yours Richard Wright, Paris - Oct. 23, 1954.
Provenance
Inscribed to Hélène Gaubert; Carter Burden.
Binding
Maroon cloth backed in black stamped in white on spine, with map illustrated endpapers, with pictorial dust jacket with author's photograph on rear panel.
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