The New Negro: An Interpretation
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925.
First edition, first printing. xviii, 446 pp. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue. Good with moderate rubbing and toning to covers, mottling to front cover, boards exposed at edges. Dust-soiling and light staining to upper edge of textblock, dampstaining to endpapers, pencil inscriptions to front endpapers and half-title. First two leaves clipped at the lower corner, contents toned with occasional foxing, binding exposed at multiple places. Lacking jacket. A serviceable copy. A landmark African American anthology featuring stories, essays, and poetry by the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance movement: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and more.
Price: $3,500