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New York: Harper Brothers, 1930. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Third printing, title page says 1929 but the copyright code A-E makes this an early 1930's printing. Hardcover, cloth-backed boards, title labels. Illustrated throughout. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Former owner's net signature on the fly leaf; mild fading to the edges of the boards; clean interior. The DJ sunned along the spine; chipping to spine ends; light soil to rear panel, mild edgewear; neatly price-clipped. A nice copy in the scarce dust jacket.

New York:: Harper and Brothers,, 1929.. First edition; No. 4 of 128 copies, numbered and signed by Cullen.. publisher's cloth-backed boards in slipcase.. Spine label abraded, making it illegible; otherwise a tight, fresh copy. The box is very good with some partial splitting at the joints and some light abrasion to the label.. 8vo,.

IMPORTANT WORK FROM THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE - A NARRATIVE POEM ON LYNCHINGfirst edition 8vo. [12 (incl. preliminary blank)], 96pp., original black cloth backed patterned red paper covered boards, spine gilt lettered, endpapers of the same red paper boldly patterned in black, fore and lower edges untrimmed, the two terminal leaves lightly toned at gutter (offsetting from the endpaper), else a fine copy in the cream paper dust jacket which is printed in red and black on front panel and in black on 'spine' and rear panel. Jacket 'spine' and edges a shade darkened and a small triangular piece (with a few words of advertisement text) torn from the lower edge of its rear panel. This English edition apparently precedes the first U.S. edition published later in 1929.Countee Cullen (born Countee LeRoy Porter, 1903 - 1946), American black poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, was particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The Harlem Renaissance, a flowering of a… Leer más

London and New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarter black cloth gilt and decorated paper over boards. Small tears at the spine ends, bottom corners a little bumped, else near fine lacking the jacket. Inscribed by Cullen to Afro-Caribbean Harlem Renaissance author Eric D. Walrond: "For Eric, Sincerely - and in Paris, Countee. Oct. 15, 1929." Waldrond, author of *Tropic Death* and an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance, abandoned New York for London in 1928. In 1925, Cullen dedicated his famous poem, *Incident (for Eric Walrond)*, about a racist incident in Baltimore, to his close friend and fellow author. A nice association copy of an important collection of poetry.