Books

FIRST EDITION of this first French translation, published in the Du monde collection. One of 110 numbered copies on pure Lafuma vellum (this being #91), the only printing on large paper. Black boy is one of the first novels written by blacks about their living conditions. The first American Edition was published by Harper s in 1945. This limited French Edition is the scarcest of all the issues. Housed in a cloth slipcase / chemise with leather label.

An autobiographical account of Wright's adolescence and youth in the South, dealing with themes of racial tension and the search for identity.