[Rarebooks] FS: Harlem Renaissance First Edition, 1929, in dustwrapper, price reduced

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Sun Feb 20 13:54:12 EST 2011


Price reduced:    Was $950    Now  $750:

McKAY, Claude. BANJO. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First Edition. 
McKay's second novel in which, according to the dustwrapper flap, "life 
moves lustily, violently, and the black boys take life as it comes." 
McKay, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, was the first 
African-American to receive the medal of the Institute of Arts and 
Sciences. Some crimping to top of spine and small, not terribly 
noticeable holes along front joint. Hence, Very Good in an attractive 
dustwrapper with small chips at the head of the spine and one at the 
front panel near the spine edge. Very Good in an at least Very Good 
dustwrapper.         $750.00

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