Fishbelly (The Long Dream)

Wright Richard

Paris: Julliard, 1960.

First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Item #042252

With an interview and a portrait of Wright. One of 30 copies on Marais, this number 27. Faint wear to edges, in original glassine wrapper. Uncut. Wright lived in Paris from 1946 until his death in late 1960 - he became a French citizen in 1947.

Published as The Long Dream in 1958, it is often viewed as the final book in the Native Son, Black Boy sequence. It traces the life of Fishbelly, the son of a Mississippi mortician in the Jim Crow South. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 042252.

Price: $200.00