Richard Wright, Daemonic Genius: a portrait of the man--a critical look at his work
by Walker, Margaret
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About This Item
New York: An Amistad Book / Warner Books, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Margaret Walker, the author of this fine and due homage to an outstanding author, and she being the winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award and the Yale Younger Poets Competition, "met Richard Wright in Chicago in 1936 when she was a girl of twenty and Wright was twenty-seven years old" (from the publisher's blurb). A particularly literary biography by a contemporary of Mr. Wright. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, not price-clipped. A lengthy range of fine black-and-white photographs. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 428 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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- Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 356145
- Title
- Richard Wright, Daemonic Genius: a portrait of the man--a critical look at his work
- Author
- Walker, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- An Amistad Book / Warner Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 8vo 8" - 9" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Richard Wright literary criticism Margaret Walker
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