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Black Manhattan.
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1930. Sm 8vo (7.75” x 5.5”), gray cloth with brown chain pattern, stamped in red. Frontis. port. of Ira Aldridge, xvii, 284 pp., xxxiv, 12 b&w plates, photographic end-papers. Author’s presentation inscription at ffep. CONDITION: Very good, dust jacket repaired with tape at spine and with unrepaired 2.5” tear along fold. First edition, inscribed by the author thus: “For Walter F. Ellis – with personal regard – Sincerely – James Weldon Johnson Five Acres, Great Barrington.” Johnson’s overview of the history of African Americans in New York City from the colonial era to the Harlem Renaissance, with an emphasis on the development of Black culture and its creative tradition. REFERENCES: Weinstein 221; Blockson 2373.
Item #10480
Price: $15,000.00
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