Passing

by Nella Larsen

$25,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition, first printing of this scarce Harlem Renaissance classic, signed by Nella Larsen on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth ruled in red with silver lettering, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with cloth rubbed through at corners and spine ends with shallow loss at the crown, lettering mostly rubbed on spine and partially on upper board, scuffing to

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