The Oxford companion to African American literature; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Trade Paperback. xxvii, 866p., first printing, wraps. More
Cat.No: 94317
Harlem Renaissance
Afro-American poetics; revisions of Harlem and the black aesthetic
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. Hardcover. x, 201p., introduction, notes, index, photos, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Essays on Cullen, Toomer, Baraka, Larry Neal, Fuller and more. More
Cat.No: 159585
All-Night Party: the women of Bohemian Greenwich Village & Harlem 1913-1930
Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 2004. Paperback. xviii, 260p., cast of characters, introduction, epilogue, notes, bibliography, index, b&w photos, very good first edition, first printing stated trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Chapters on Mina Loy, Margaret Anderson & Jane Heap, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bessie Smith & Ethel Waters. More
Cat.No: 265624
A renaissance in Harlem, lost voices of an American community
New York: Avon Books, 1999. Hardcover. 302p., first edition, very good in a very good dj with price intact. More
Cat.No: 136104
Langston Hughes; before and beyond Harlem
Westport: Lawrence Hill & Company, 1983. Hardcover. xiv, 376p., Very good in bit edgeworn and rubbed unpriced dust jacket. More
Cat.No: 36442
No easy place to be
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. Hardcover. 443p., very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. The African American writer's first novel, set in the Harlem Renaissance, containing gay themes. More
Cat.No: 36046
Dark ancestor; the literature of the black man in the Caribbean
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. Hardcover. x, 288p., review slip laid in, dj. The Afro-British Guyanan author includes a chapter on the Harlem Renaissance and the Négritude movements. More
Cat.No: 84762
Vicious modernism; black Harlem and the literary imagination
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Hardcover. 280p., dj. African American author. More
Cat.No: 70559
Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Hardcover. 354p., hardcover in dust jacket, 8x11.25 inches, very good. Signed and inscribed by Farrington on the full title page. Illustrated profusely with b&w and color photographs. More
Cat.No: 286657
Countee Cullen and the Negro renaissance; illustrated
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1966. Hardcover. ix, 213p. + 8p. photos, second printing. More
Cat.No: 155924
"Or does it explode?" Black Harlem in the Great Depression
New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Hardcover. viii, 317p., map., graphs., first printing, very good hardcover in like dj. More
Cat.No: 12920
Racechanges; white skin, black face in American culture
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Hardcover. xxiii, 327p. including b&w illustrations + 4p. color illustrations, first edition hardcover in bit soiled dj. Name in ink to top page edges near top of spine. With material on lynchings, jazz, the Harlem Renaissance, and gay/black relations. More
Cat.No: 108063
Jule a novel
London: W. H. Allen, 1948. Hardcover. 224p., very good first UK edition in black cloth and gilt, and edgeworn but bright and attractive unclipped dj. Sequel to "Ollie Miss" by the Harlem Renaissance writer. More
Cat.No: 182444
Jule a novel
London: W. H. Allen, 1946. Hardcover. 224p., very good first UK edition in black cloth and gilt, spine sloped and edge worn dj with small hole on spine with tape repair on verso of spine. Sequel to "Ollie Miss" by the Harlem Renaissance writer. More
Cat.No: 187101
Hubert Henry Harrison, the black Socrates
Austin, TX: American Atheist Press, 1987. Pamphlet. [x], 7p., very good in wraps. The African American historian/freethinker/trade unionist's essay on Harrison as one of the eminent black freethinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, and a major critic of religous belief. More
Cat.No: 151294
The Harlem Renaissance, a historical dictionary for the era
New York: Methuen, 1984. Trade Paperback. xxxii, 476p., wraps edge worn, signed by Kellner on the title page, previous owner's gift inscription also on the title page else good condition. More
Cat.No: 149849
The Harlem Renaissance, a historical dictionary for the era
New York: Methuen, 1984. Trade Paperback. xxxii, 476p., wraps, 6x9 inches, wraps worn, old price sticker on rear wrap else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 273658
Anthologie Négro-Africaine; panorama critique des prosateurs, poètes et dramaturges noirs du XXe siècle
Verviers: Marabout, 1978. Mass Market Paperback. 432p., pocket size softbound, cover has a corner-tip crease, second edition in French, paperstock toned, a nice clean copy. The idea of negritude that developed among a group of black African and Caribbean poets living in Paris in the 1930s drew its inspiration from..... More
Cat.No: 95491
Carl Van Vechten: the man and his role in the Harlem Renaissance
Tokyo: Seibido, 1983. Hardcover. viii, 148 pages, illustrated with a number of less common period photographs, hardbound in 8.5x6 inch orange papered boards gilt and enclosed in the dustjacket; a very nice copy, signed in Japanese by the author (who gratefully acknowledges a Columbia University professor and a Sokagaki honcho)..... More
Cat.No: 245449
Zora Neale Hurston: A life in letters
New York: Doubleday, 2002. Hardcover. ix, 880p. Very good in bit soiled and rubbed dj. More
Cat.No: 207016
Jump at the sun, Zora Neale Hurston's cosmic comedy
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. Hardcover. xiv, 371p., first edition in red cloth gilt and glossy photodecorated dust jacket, slightly edge worn dj else as new. On humor In Hurston's writings. More
Cat.No: 134095
Her dream of dreams; the rise and triumph of Madam C. J. Walker
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Hardcover. 481p., first edition, dj, entirely sound, clean and unmarked. Born to emancipated slaves on the Mississippi, Walker built a cosmetics business that made her America's first self-made woman millionaire. More
Cat.No: 83005
The power of pride; stylemakers and rulebreakers of the Harlem renaissance
New York: Crown Publishers, 1999. Hardcover. 272p., foreword, introduction, notes, index, profusely illustrated with vintage photos very good first edition in 10x7 inch boards and unclipped dj; a very good copy. Biographical sketches, essays, history. More
Cat.No: 68910
New Negro, old left. African American writing and Communism between the wars
New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Paperback. 254p., wraps, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 212850
Claude McKay: rebel sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance, a biography
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Paperback. xi, 441p., pictorial wraps, a tight, clean copy in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 274382