Autograph sentiment signed ("Richard Wright") to Bill Targ

  • 8 x 5 inch sheet
  • New York , 1945
By Wright, Richard
New York, 1945. 8 x 5 inch sheet. Very faded. Framed with a portrait of Wright. 8 x 5 inch sheet. In full: "To Bill Targ - 'Freedom belongs to the strong.' As ever, Richard Wright 12/2/45 N.Y.C". William Targ (1907-1999), was an editor and then head of Putnam's before founding his own imprint, Targ Editions. Prior to that, as an editor at World Publishers, Targ acquired and published Wright's The Color Curtain (1956) and Eight Men (posthumously published in 1961). Autograph material of Wright is rare.

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