Negro : anthology / made by Nancy Cunard, 1931-1933.

First edition of this important collection, including "some 150 voices of both races". It "featur[es] work by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Arthur Schomburg, Alain Locke, and W.E.B. Du Bois; profiles on major figures from Phyllis Wheatley to Frederick Douglass to Josephine Baker; essays on th...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Ballantyne Press (Printer)
Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co (Printer)
Other Authors: Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965 (Compiler, Publisher)
Barnett, Claude, 1889-1967 (Former owner)
Language:English
Published: [London] : Published by Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 9 John Street, London, W.C. 2, 1934.
Subjects:
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Black people > Intellectual life.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Black people > Social conditions.
African American arts > 20th century.
Arts, Black > 20th century.
Racism > History.
Race relations > History.
Black people > West Indies.
Black people > South America.
Black people > Africa.
Black people > Europe.
African Americans > Poetry.
American poetry > African American authors > 20th century.
African Americans > Music.
African Americans > Press coverage > History > 20th century > Sources.
African Americans > Political activity > History > 20th century.
Illustrated works.
Essays.
Poetry.
Bookplates > United States > 20th century.
Bookplates
Genre:
Poetry.
Music.
Sources.
Illustrated works.
Essays.
Bookplates
Ownership and Custodial History:
Bookplate on orange-pink paper on both paste-downs: "From the library of Claude A. Barnett" (this is Claude Albert Barnett, journalist and founder of the Associated Negro Press); bookseller's description, by Max Rambod Rare Books, Woodland Hills, California, available in MSS 466.
Local Note:
MSU: Laid-in material transferred to MSS 466, Box 7, Folder 238.
Binding Information:
In publisher's brown cloth; title in red on upper board and spine, and map of "The Black Belt of America" on lower board; rebacked, with much of original backstrip laid down.
Physical Description:viii, 854 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, maps ; 31 cm
Format: Book

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