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Negro: Anthology Made by Nancy Cunard, 1931-1933....
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Negro: Anthology Made by Nancy Cunard, 1931-1933. Edited by Nancy Cunard. London: Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934. First edition, later state black cloth binding. Quarto (10" x 12.5"). viii, 580, iii, [581]-854, [2] pages. One colored folding map and extensive illustrations. Black cloth boards stamped in red, rear board with map also stamped in red. Only one thousand copies were originally printed, and several hundred of those were later destroyed during the London Blitz. This monumental work presents virtually every aspect of Black life and letters from the years following World War One in an encyclopedic format. It includes works by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Arthur Schomburg, Alain Locke, and W.E.B. Dubois. There are essays on Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, and Josephine Baker, the slave trade, lynching, Scottsboro, and the Klan. Because of its large size, there are usually condition defects. This copy is one of the best condition we have ever seen. Blockson says, "Virtually unobtainable... However , no comprehensive African American library is complete without it."Reference: Blockson, One Hundred and One, 71. Gallup, Ezra Pound, B33.
Condition: Spine pushed and rubbed, boards rubbed, corners bumped and rubbed with board showing through very slightly at tips. Pastedown and endpapers lightly rubbed and foxed, ownership sticker to front free endpapers. Edges toned. Title page creased and wrinkled with minor edgewear and foxing, two areas of tape repair to closed tears to verso. Internally clean aside from some slight foxing and soiling.
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2022 October 19 Historic African Americana Signature® Auction #6248 (go to Auction Home page)
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