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New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing of the classic Harlem Renaissance novel. Extremely rare, signed by Jean Toomer and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper, "To Fay De Frantz with warm regards for one who feels so warmly about this book and its author [signed] Jean Toomer". Bound in publisher's buff cloth stamped in yellow and black; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good with light lean to binding, light soiling and wear to cloth. Pages tanned, small tear and crease to the top of the front free endpaper, several margins show chips or short mended tears at the fore edge. Glue repair to hinge at rear pastedown and evidence of removal of an old bookseller ticket with offsetting to the rear free endpaper. The first appearance of a classic of modern American fiction and pinnacle of the Harlem Renaissance. In his foreword Waldo Frank dubs it "a harbinger of the South's literary maturity: of its emergence from the obsession put… Read More

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. xi, [v], 239 pp. Publisher's buff cloth stamped in yellow and black. Very Good with light soiling, rubbing, and staining to cloth, wear at tips, slight lean, contents a bit toned with age, a few easily erasable pencil notations to rear paste down. Lacking jacket. Quite rare and much sought-after in decent condition. The first appearance of a classic of modern American fiction and pinnacle of the Harlem Renaissance. In his foreword Waldo Frank dubs it "a harbinger of the South's literary maturity: of its emergence from the obsession put upon its mind by the unending racial crisis-an obsession from which writers have made their indirect escape through sentimentalism, exoticism, polemic, 'problem' fiction, and moral melodrama. It marks the dawn of direct and unafraid creation.

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. .

Arion Press, 2000. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Single sheet folded to create 4 leaves, 9.5 x 13 inches when folded. Pages 4 and 5 'Karintha' are printed on inside leaves. First edition (first printing) of page examples for the publication. A near fine copy. With letter from Arion Press announcing the publication with details. With 4-page Arion Press Price List, September, 1997.

Liveright. Collectible - Good. 1975. First Printing. Soft Cover. (W424) .

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: Harper & Row, 1969. 1st ed thus. Softcover. VG/no dj, as issued. 7 1/8 x 4 3/8. Cover design by James McMullan. Illus fc, print bc. Pages yellowing, prev owner's name on flyleaf; otherwise clean, unmarked, solid - no creases, no dog ears.

W.W. Norton, 2011. First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Includes an authoritative text, contexts, and literary criticism, 472 pages. Thicker softcover, glossy gray wrappers, color portrait of Toomer at center front with yellow and white frames, yellow at center back with praise from Maya Angelou and others. Creased at bottom tips of pages 239-246. Light wear at top front tip. Near Very Fine.

Harper & Row, 1969 First Printing in illustrated yellow wraps, the first reprint following the impossibly scarce 1923 First Edition, no markings, NOT ex-lib, light edge wear & soil to wraps, spine creased but binding tight, pages clean, nice copy of the First Paperback Edition; 12mo; 239pp. First Edition. Mass Market. Good.

Harper & Row, 1969-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Harper & Row; First Edition Thus (January 1, 1969)