Cane

by Jean Toomer, Waldo Frank, Foreword

$12,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1923. First edition, first printing of one of the most influential works of the Harlem Renaissance. 239 pp. Bound in publisher's grey cloth stamped in marigold and dark blue; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light wear to tips, trivial soiling to spine, and offsetting at endsheets and preliminary sheets. Front free endpaper chipped and slightly wormed, rear end paper lacking, tidemark at

• Printing: first

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