Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927.
First edition, first printing. xxii, [ii], 237, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black glazed cloth with pink and black paper labels on the spine and upper board; red topstain and patterned endpapers. Very Good with light foxing to paper labels, modest edge wear and small spot of wear to upper board. Former owner's bookplate and name dated 1937 at front free endpaper; some underlining and tick marks, isolated mostly to early pages, in pencil and ink. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine, light chipping to crown with a few closed tears to edges; writing in pencil at the top edge of the rear flap. A landmark anthology that defined the Harlem Renaissance and elevated poets like Langston Hughes and Georgia Douglas Johnson to a serious literary status. An uncommonly nice copy with contributions by W. E. B. DuBois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Arna Bontemps and the man himself, Countee Cullen. Schomburg p. 11, Perry 762, Porter p. 27.
Price: $1,500