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The North Carolina
Magazine, Negro Play Number.
Small folio, original printed blue and gray wrappers;
lightly rubbed with a small circular de-accession stamp from the Library of Congress.
Chapel Hill, April 1929
[600/900]
VERY SCARCE ISSUE DEVOTED TO NEGRO PLAYWRIGHTS AND THEIR PLAYS
. P
RINTINGS OF
ANY OF THESE PLAYS ARE RARE
. W
ORKS BY
E
ULALIE
S
PENCE
, W
ILLIS
R
ICHARDSON AND
M
AY
M
ILLER ARE LATER REPRINTED IN
A
LAIN
L
OCKE
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P
LAYS OF
N
EGRO
L
IFE
.
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Five Harlem
Renaissance titles: Home to Harlem (McKay) * Cane (Toomer) * Walls of
Jericho (Fisher) * Banjo (McKay) * Black Thunder (Bontemps).
CONDITION
VARIES
,
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Vp, 1928-1936
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITIONS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CANE
,
SECOND PRINTING
A fine, representative
group of Harlem Renaissance classics.
316
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Five poetry titles:
The Sylvan Cabin (Edward Smyth Jones) * Fifty Years and Other Poems (James
Weldon Johnson) * Toussaint L’Overture (Leslie Pinckney Hill) * The Brown
Madonna (Irwin Underhill) * The Poems of Phillis Wheatley (the Wrights).
Various bindings,
CONDITION VARIES
,
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Vp, 1911-1930
[500/750]
ALL FIRST EDITIONS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE PHILLIS WHEATLEY
,
though the latter has
the added value of printing some letters by Wheatley as well as some information on appearances of
her poetry in other books.
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) VARIOUS AUTHORS.
Black Fortune
(E.K. Means) * Wings on My Feet (Howard Odum) * Earth Born (Howard
Snyder) * Poor Nigger (Orio Vergani) * Inchin’ Along (Welborn Kelley).
Group
of first edition Afro-centric novels with exceptional period dust-jackets. Uniform 8vo’s,
pictorial dust jackets; some damp-stains to the bottom margins of the first two titles; other-
wise very good copies with the dust jackets in excellent condition.
New York, 1929-1932
[400/600]
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