"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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"A LEADER IN THE BRITISH ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT": FIRST EDITION OF ALEXANDER'S PIVOTAL WORK, LETTERS ON THE SLAVE-TRADE (1842)
ALEXANDER, G[eorge]. W[illiam]. Letters on the Slave-Trade. London, 1842.
First edition of a signal work by leading British abolitionist Alexander, whose lifelong efforts "to rid the world of the scourge of slavery" won praise by Frederick Douglass, cited in W.E.B. Du Bois' Suppression of the Slave Trade, almost entirely uncut and unopened in original gilt-stamped cloth. $2900.
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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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