London: Cassell, (1945.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Stories, sketches, ancedotes and personalities including essays and sketches about such people as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Katherine Cornell, Orson Wells, George Gershwin, Harpo Marx, Jane Austen, Helen Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan Macy, the Baker Street irregulars, accounts of five classic crimes and more. 233 pp.

New York: Amistad / Harper Collins, (1993). SIGNED first edition - Includes 20 reviews of Wright's novels and other books and 22 critical essays on his works; the reviewers include Joyce Cary, Max Eastman, Clifton Fadiman, Zora Neale Hurston, Sinclair Lewis, Ralph Ellison, Horace A. Porter, Lionel Trilling, David Bradley and others. Essays by Dan McCall, Claudia C. Tate, Robert Stepto, Herbert Leibowitz, Houston A Baker and more. Preface by Gates. SIGNED by K. A. Appiah on the title page. One of the first six volumes of literary criticism launching the Amistad Literary series, which is devoted to literary fiction and criticism by and about African Americans. Chronology, bibliography and index. xvi, 476 pp. ISBN: 1-567430279.