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A HARLEM RENAISSANCE CLASSIC
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LOCKE, ALAIN.
The New Negro, An Interpretation.
Binding, color por-
traits and decorations by Winold Reiss.; endpapers designed by Aaron Douglas. 446 pages.
Large, thick 8vo, original decorative paper-covered, cloth-backed boards; board edges
lightly rubbed; bookplate and signature of previous owner.
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925
[800/1,200]
ONE OF THE KEY WORKS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
,
EDITED BY THE ACKNOWLEDGED
“
GODFATHER
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OF THE MOVEMENT
.
A magnificent anthology, that includes just about every one of
the current writers. Portions of Jean Toomer’s “Cane,” “Spunk” by Zora Neale Hurston, plus poetry
by Countee Cullen, Georgia Douglas Johnson, James Weldon Johnson and Claude McKay and oth-
ers. Drama by Jessie Faucet and Willis Richardson; historical articles by Arthur Schomburg and
Arthur Huff Faucet; artwork by Aaron Douglas and Miguel Covarrubias; music and poetry from
Langston Hughes, and much more. The New Negro was published the same year as the Survey
Graphic’s “New Negro,” with much the same design and layout. Once more frequently found, now
quite scarce in acceptable condition.
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MCKAY, CLAUDE.
Banjo.
Small, thick 8vo, original cloth-backed boards; Aaron
Douglas dust jacket with some loss to the head and heel.
New York: Harpers, 1929
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION OF THE JAMAICAN AUTHOR
’
S SECOND NOVEL
.
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THURMAN, WALLACE.
Negro Life in New York’s Harlem.
24mo, stapled
booklet, original printed wrappers.
Kansas: Haldeman Julius Co. “Little Books,” [1928]
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR
’
S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK
,
DESPITE ITS SIZE
.
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THURMAN, WALLACE.
Blacker the Berry, a Novel of Negro Life.
8vo,
original brown pictorial cloth; very light wear, previous owner’s bookplate on the front
paste-down.
New York: Macaulay, (1929)
[600/900]
FIRST EDITION OF HIS BEST
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KNOWN AND BEST NOVEL
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The title is drawn from the old African
saying,” The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice.”
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