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Black boy : a record of childhood and youth / by Richard Wright.

LIBRA PS3545.R815 Z5 1945
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LIBRA - Special PS3545.R815 Z5 1945 copy 2
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LIBRA - Rare PS3545.R815 Z5 1945 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Contributor:
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958, writer of introductory note.
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
Wright, Richard.
African American authors.
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Childhood and youth.
African American authors--20th century--Biography.
African Americans--Social life and customs.
African Americans.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Authors, American.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
8 unnumbered pages, 228 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945.
Notes:
"Set in Linotype Fairfield. Format by A. W. Rushmore."
Introductory Note by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
Autobiographical.
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has ms. note on front flyleaf: "Betty Jane Snighton March 1945".
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy pressented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy has "R. L. Ghormley Jr. March 1945" written in ms. on front free endpaper.
OCLC:
479769

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