£80 - £120
Americana. McKnight Kauffer (E., illustrator), Shakespeare in Harlem, first edition, second impression, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, May 1945, half-title, original publisher's two-tone cloth, 8vo; Vechten (Carl Van), N***er Heaven, first edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, half-title, original publisher's brown cloth only, 8vo; DuBose Heyward, Porgy, first edition, second impression, New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925, half-title, publisher's orange cloth only, 8vo; idem, Mamba's Daughter, 1929, publisher's green cloth, 8vo; Gaines (Ernest J.), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, first UK edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1973, variant publisher's pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo; Himes (Chester), Black on Black, first edition, London: Michael Joseph, 1975, dj, hb, 8vo; etc., (7)
Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
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