Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 230

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Eulalie Spence. Fool's Errand: Play in One Act. 26, [6] pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers, moderate wear; dampstaining to contents. New York: Samuel French, 1927
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First edition of an early prize-winning play by an important Harlem Renaissance female writer. She was born on Nevis in the West Indies and raised in Harlem and Brooklyn. This was her third play, produced by W.E.B. Du Bois's Krigwa Players Little Negro Theatre, with sets by Aaron Douglas. It won the Samuel French Prize for "Best Unpublished Play," but a dispute with Du Bois over the $200 prize money (and Spence's lack of an overt political agenda) led to the dissolution of the Krigwa Players. None traced at auction.