"A TALENT EQUAL TO WILLIAM FAULKNER"
MCCARTHY, Cormac. Child of God. New York, 1973.
First edition of Pulitzer Prize-winner McCarthy's third novel, his powerful "statement about cruelty, isolation, inhumanity." $3500.
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"'FAITH' IN THE FIGHT OF BLACK MEN FOR FREEDOM"
WRIGHT, Richard. Bright and Morning Star. New York, 1941.
First separate edition of one of Wright's earliest and most provocative looks at "racial injustice and violence in the American South," based on rumors he heard as a young boy about a Black woman who "avenged the murder of her husband" by shooting the white men responsible, a handsome copy in fragile original wrappers. $950.
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"DICKENS SEEMS TO HAVE READ WARREN'S FICTION… AND TO HAVE BORROWED IMAGES AND IDEAS"
WARREN, Samuel. Ten Thousand a-Year. New York, circa 1910. Three volumes.
Later edition of this classic 19th-century novel, popular in both England and the United States for much of the second half of the 19th-century, and a likely influence on Dickens, attractively bound. $225.
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