[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed Richard Wright: The Colour Curtain

[Charles Agvent]

WRIGHT, Richard. THE COLOUR CURTAIN. London: Dennis Dobson (1956).
First  Edition.  First  English  Edition.  A  report  on  the  Bandung
Conference   of  29  Asian  and   African  countries  on  racism   and
colonialism.  Illustrated  with photographs by the  author.  INSCRIBED
and  SIGNED by the author to Sara Penn "with all my best wishes"  on 1
July  1956 in Paris. Books signed by Wright are uncommon. He died  but
four  years  after  this inscription at the age  of  52.  Bookseller's
sticker  below the inscription on the front free endpaper. Small  nick
at head of spine. Very Good in very worn dustwrapper.         $1000.00

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