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NY, NY: Harper Brothers, [1929]. . Dust Jacket Only. 12mo. Good with corners clipped, loss. [First Edition]

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First Edition. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Charles Cullen. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Some extremely dramatic black-and-white engraved woodcuts by Charles Cullen, his brother. Blue cloth over boards, black cloth-backed. Abraded paper label to front cover, black over tan. Even more abraded paper title label to spine. Moderate rubbing to extremities, light bleed-through of blue at upper rear panel. 110 pp. and with a final, arresting, Christian-themed image at end. Countee Cullen (born Countee LeRoy Porter; May 30, 1903 – January 9, 1946) was an extremely important American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright. His importance to the so-called Harlem Renaissance is unquestioned. His precise birthplace remains unknown, whether Baltimore, Maryland, New York City or Louisville. He was adopted at age 15 by "Reverend Frederick A. Cullen,… Read More

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.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cullen, Charles. Blue boards. Black cloth spine. Paper label on cover and spine heavily rubbed. Top edge and leading edge faded. Corners bumped. Paper cover boards has light chip on bottom edge. Bookplate on front pastedown. Several pages have pencil underline and xxx's near title. A few margin notes such as ! and double lines. Lacking DJ

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 110 pages. In Good condition. Spine is black with a faded and partially torn off-white square. Boards have bumping to corners, major rubbing, some damp staining along the bottom edge, minor staining to covers, sunning, and shelf wear. Binding is partially shaken, most evident on page 34-35. Text block has a gold sticker on the bottom right edge of the front paste down and minor scuffing and staining to the rear paste down and last end paper. NOTE: Shelved in Room A. 1373984. Special Collections.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. 1st edition . Hardcover. Good condition, ca. 1" missing from top of d.j. spine in worn d.j./fair. Charles Cullen. 110p., illus.

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,.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. First Edition. First edition, limited issue. Signed by Countee Cullen on the colophon at front, copy 124 of 128. xiii, 111 pp. Bound in publisher's quarter cloth, silver title label, internal bookmark. Near Fine with wear to title label and some glue staining around it, lacking dust jacket. A signed copy of a major collection by the Harlem Renaissance poet.

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… Read More

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.