Color
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925. First Edition, second printing. 12mo Hardcover, quarter yellow cloth over patterned boards with a mounted title plate to top board and spine, 108 pp. First collection from the young poet who helped ignite the powderkeg that was the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen began publishing to acclaim as a high school student in Manhattan and a few years after graduation published Color with a major publisher. Scarce early printing, especially so in jacket. Very Good, tight square binding, soiling to boards, fray to corners and extremities of spine, light foxing and soiling to endpapers, very light scattered marks from Doris Funnye Innis, who besides providing her signature, pens a few lines herself in blue pen to the rear free endpaper: "I feel life all around me -- I feel life all around me + I must touch it!" / Fair jacket, with fairly heavy chipping to edges and spine. Flaps have fairly neatly split from panels, and spine is close to following suit. Spine and edges tones, general soiling and rubbing throughout except the panels, which remain bright. Item #622
Price: $200.00