Harlem: Negro Metropolis

by Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston

$125,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

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New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1940. A spectacular association copy, inscribed by Claude McKay to Zora Neale Hurston in ink on the front free endpaper, To Zora Neale Hurston , rare explorer, exponent and creator of the life of our folk / from her admired signed Claude McKay / January 1941. Both were central figures in the Harlem Renaissance movement, not long gone when it was eulogized in this WWII-era history.

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