(LITERATURE) Alain Locke editor The New Negro An Interpretat

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(LITERATURE.) Alain Locke, editor. The New Negro: An Interpretation. 17 plates (many in color) by Winold Reiss; numerous text illustrations by Aaron Douglas, Covarrubias and others. xviii, 452 pages. 8vo, original art-deco style cloth-backed paper-covered boards, minor wear; minimal wear to contents; original owner's inscription and gift bookplate to a church library on front endpapers. New York, 1925

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First edition of this important compilation of the arts in Harlem in 1925, with contributions from a virtual who's who of African American arts and letters. "Both visual splendor and stirring documentary. . . . One of the most sought-after works of the Harlem Renaissance. . . . Locke's positions on ancestral legacy and his emphasis on African and folk contributions anticipated the posture of the militant and revolutionary thinking of the 1960s"--Blockson, One Hundred and One 64.