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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original patterned paper-covered boards over black spine cloth, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with rubbing to covers heaviest at edges, wear to spine cloth with fraying at ends, slight loss at tips. Pages toned and sporadically soiled. Clipping from dust jacket tipped in at front paste down with small check mark, and book plate mostly removed from rear paste down. Short tear to edge of title page and hinge there is slightly over-opened. Harlem Shadows was among the first books published during the Harlem Renaissance and was a watershed contribution to its fiction.

New York: Library of America. Fine. 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover set in slipcases. Loa # 217 & 218; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1715 pages; 2011 Library of America # 217 & 218. Subscriber's version. Two volumes slipcased HC still in publisher's shrinkwrap. 1st printings. Prior owner was a subscriber of LOA from the very first book published and received all editions immediately upon publication. This 2 volume set essentially new, still sealed. Fine ... Oversize book likely to require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. .

Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Random House UK | | Mass Market Paperback | 224 p. | This book is brand new. | Series: HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. 'Why did I want to mix mahself up in a white folk's war? It ain't ever was any of black folks' affair'When Jake Brown joins the army during the First World War, he is treated more like a slave than a soldier. After deserting his post to escape the racial violence he is facing, Jake travels back home to Harlem. But despite the distance, Jake cannot seem to escape the past and the explosive ways in which it can culminate. Written with brutal accuracy, Home to Harlem is an extraordinary work, and was the first American bestseller by a Black writer. 'One of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance' Washington Post | We have this… Read More

This is a well preserved copy of McKay's first novel. Someone has redundantly reminded us of of the original year of publication on the front end paper. But call this one the best deal on the paperback marketplace at this price, which is the first Pocket Books edition, 1965.

NY: Pocket Books. F. 1965. 1st Printing. Paperback. Pocket Books #50184, 1965. Stated first printing. Fine condition. Mino r tanning to pages. The book appears to be unread. .

New York: The Library of America, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 867pp; Blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spine, ribbon bookmark, decorated endpapers, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Five novels from the 1920s Harlem Renaissance. Includes: Cane by Jean Toomer; Home to Harlem by Claude McKay; Quicksand by Nella Larsen; Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset; The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman. Library of America No. 217.

New York: Pocket Books, 1965. Paperback. 180p., lightly worn else good first printing stated of the mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Pocket Cardinal Edition 50184. Originally published in 1928.