Item #17525 Native Son. (Modern Library #221). Richard Wright.
Native Son. (Modern Library #221).
Native Son. (Modern Library #221).

Native Son. (Modern Library #221).

New York: Modern Library, 1940. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.

The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear.  The Dust jacket has age-toned with loss on the lower spine. All corners with small losses.

A later printing with 334 titles listed on the rear of the dust jacket.


Native Son is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, a black youth living in utter poverty in a poor area on Chicago's South Side in the 1930s. While not apologizing for Bigger's crimes, Wright portrays a systemic causation behind them.

Item #17525

Price: $65.00