The Outsider | [ornamented blocks] | by Richard Wright | [publisher's logo] | [ornamented line] | Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York
For Rachel | my daughter who was born on alien soil
Cruelty has a Human Heart, | And Jealousy a Human Face; | Terror the Human Form Divine, | And Secrecy the Human Dress. | -- William Blake
Mark me, and be astonished, | And lay your hand upon your mouth. | --Job
Outsider, The (1953 Harper & Brothers edition)
first edition, copyrighted 1953, published by Harper & Brothers, New York