(LITERATURE) Nancy Cunard; editor Negro Anthology

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(LITERATURE.) Nancy Cunard; editor. Negro Anthology. Folding map of Africa, numerous illustrations. viii, 580, iii, [581]-854, [2] pages. Folio, publisher's cloth with title in red on front board and map of "The Black Belt of America" on rear board, minor wear, tastefully rebacked with most of original backstrip laid down; edge conservation and repaired tears to about 20 leaves, a few other unrepaired closed tears and chips; bookplates of Associated Negro Press founder Claude A. Barnett laid down on renewed front and rear pastedowns. London: Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934

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First edition. This monumental anthology presents virtually every aspect of Black life and letters emerging from the decades following World War One in a virtually encyclopedic format. It features work by Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Arthur Schomburg, Alain Locke, and W.E.B. Du Bois; essays on everyone from Phyllis Wheatley to Frederick Douglass to Josephine Baker; hard-hitting essays on the slave trade, lynching, prison labor, Scottsboro, and the Klan; a directory of "Some Negro Slang"; and coverage of current developments in Africa and the West Indies. A substantial portion of the original edition of 1000 are said to have been lost in a German bombing raid on London. "Virtually unobtainable. . . . However, no comprehensive African American library is complete without it"--Blockson One Hundred and One, 71.