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Sale 1335 - Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
Jun 6, 2024
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McKAY, Claude (1890-1948). Harlem Shadows. Max Eastman, introduction. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.
Small 8vo. Original blue cloth-backed boards, printed spine label (spine sunned, label chipped at edges, fore-corners rubbed). Provenance: Earle Y. Sullivan (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of this groundbreaking volume that was the Harlem Renaissance’s first book of poetry. McKay, a proud Jamaican-born poet, was considered the most powerful voice in postwar Black poetry and one of the principal forces in bringing the Negro Literary Awakening.
Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie