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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926.
Signed by Countee Cullen on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner in Albany, NY, dated Feb. 10, 1928. xvii, 108 pp. Bound in publisher's decorated boards with yellow cloth backstrip, title labels. Early printing, but not the first, of the first edition, dated January 1926. Very Good with typical offsetting to labels, rubbed bottom edge, small ding to front label, bookplate on paste down, line of toning along endpapers. In a Very Good example of the fragile dust jacket, chipped at head and upper front corner, spine and gutters toned. The Harlem Renaissance poet and scholar's first book, rarely found in a decent jacket.
Price: $1,200