Uncle Tom's Children: Five Long Stories

Cleveland/New York: The World Publishing Company. Very Good- in Very Good dj. 1943 (c.1938). Tower Books edition Second Printing. Hardcover. [small dents in top and bottom edges of front cover and along the front hinge, moderate age-toning to edges of text block; the jacket has a number of small nicks and some shallow paper loss along the edges and at both ends of the spine Cheap wartime edition (although in pretty good shape as these things go) of Wright's first book, a collection of longish stories (sometimes referred to as novellas), issued after he had achieved wider fame with his novel "Native Son," published by Harper & Brothers in 1940. Rather than a reprint of the original (1938) edition, this book reprints the "Enlarged Edition" which Harper put out (also in 1940) with the addition of an autobiographical preface, "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow," and the long story "Bright and Morning Star." (The 1938 edition contained only four stories: "Big Boy Leaves Home"; "Down by the Riverside"; "Long Black Song"; and "Fire and Cloud.") .