Fishbelly [The Long Dream]

by Wright, Richard

First edition thus

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Book desription: Paris: Julliard, 1960. First edition thus. Very Good +. THIS BOOK IS ELIGIBLE FOR A DISCOUNT OF UP TO 20% OFF THE PRICE SHOWN IN THIS LISTING FOR ORDERS PLACED ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER 31, 2009. (Not available in combination with any other discounts.) The First French Edition of Richard Wright's powerful tale set in the Jim Crow South. This copy is in Very Good + condition (a splash mark to the front cover, pages lightly separated from the lower portion of the spine (the book is holding together well), and some creases to the spine from earlier reading(s)). The pages are totally unopened and, other than the aforementioned matters, the book, bound in the Publisher's original wrappers, is in Fine condition. A review copy marked "S. P." (for "Service de Presse") on the rear panel. The book was first published in the United States in 1958 titled "The Long Dream" and focuses on Rex "Fishbelly" Tucker. Fishbelly's father is a mortician with business arrangements with corrupt members of the white establishment. In spite of being born to relative prosperity, Fishbelly learns that the realities of the Jim Crow South are unavoidable and applicable even to him. Wright was living in self-exile in Paris and associated with many important people there. This book is INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT TO PIERRE DAIX : "A - / M. Pierre Daix / Cordial hommage / Richard Wright". Daix was a well-known French writer and friend of Picasso and Neruda who joined the French Communist Party at age 17. Daix worked to save French Resistance fighters, and took part in demonstrations against the German occupation. He was branded a "terrorist" and sent off by the Germans to Mauthausen concentration camp. This is a nice ASSOCIATION COPY inscribed by Wright to one of the major Left Bank writers and intellectuals of the time.

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