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WRIGHT, Richard (1908–1960). Uncle Tom’s Children. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. 8vo. Publisher’s red cloth stamped in black (some pale staining near foot of upper cover). Second printing. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY WRIGHT TO ERNEST HEMINGWAY. Originally published with four novellas; two more were added when the book was reprinted in 1940. In “Down By the Riverside,” included in this collection, Wright transposes the Italian retreat at the Battle of Caporetto in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms to the American South. Richard Wright was known to be a great admirer of Ernest Hemingway, whom he once named as a modernist writer whose work should be read by aspiring black authors (Scruggs, “Hemingway and the Black Renaissance,” p. 58–59).