Home to Harlem
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover octavo(5-3/8 x 7-3/4 inches) in patterned beige paper-covered boards backed with black cloth. Decorative endpapers. 340pp. True first printing (stated "First Edition" and with "A-C" to copyright statement, denoting a printing date of January 1928) of one of the cornerstones of the Harlem Renaissance literary movement. Claude McKay's debut novel Home to Harlem was the first novel of the movement to become a bestseller, and became the first in a quartet on Harlem (Banjo, Gingertown,and Banana Bottom) that established McKay as one of the most significant contributors to the movement and 20th-century American literature at large. Rubbed about edges; ends of spine pushed and frayed with some material loss; boards scuffed; spine text rubbed and faded; three-inch dampstain to top edge of text block at spine; leaves toned but clean; book sits square; Good only. Item #3685
Price: $750.00