Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945.
First edition. Signed by co-author Horace R. Cayton, Jr. on the front free endpaper. xxxiv, 809 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gray and yellow stamping to spine. Very Good with light red pencil notation by former owner to paste down and a few underlines throughout text, a hint of wave towards front, in a Near Fine dust jacket with slightly sunned spine panel, a few short closed tears, unclipped ($5.00). An uncommon signature on a classic sociological survey of urban African American life, specifically the South Side of Chicago. Cayton was a prominent African American sociologist, the son of a founder of a Black newspaper in Seattle in the 1890s.
Price: $1,250.00