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Editore: Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co, London, 1934
Da: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
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First Edition. First edition, first printing. viii, 856 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in red, with black topstain, issued without a dust jacket. Very Good+ with rubbing to cloth along edges, worn at head and tail, small bookplate to front free endpaper, a few spots of foxing to edges, vertical creases and two tiny tape mends to title page.An ambitious compilation all aspects of history and culture of the African in Africa, or the diaspora featuring contributions from an impressive array of leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Arthur A. Schomberg, W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter White, Countee Cullen and many others. A definitive work on the growth and development of Black culture of the early 20th century. One-thousand copies were originally printed, though many remained unsold and were destroyed when the warehouse they were stored in was bombed during the Blitz.