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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) CUNARD, NANCY, EDITOR. The Negro Anthology, Made by Nancy Cunard, 1931-1933. Profusely illustrated; 855 pages. Folio, original brown cloth with the title in red; original coarse brown linen covered boards with beveled edges; badly re-cased at some earlier date; a copy of Henry Lee Moon's review for the Amsterdam News affixed to the front paste-down; Amsterdam News stamps on the endpapers. London: Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co, 1934
a key harlem renaissance title with a fine association, sent to henry lee moon at the amsterdam news for his review. Cunard's Anthology followed a number of small but ambitious collections of literary and artistic material relative to the American Negro, like the Survey Graphic's 'Harlem, Mecca to the New Negro,' (1925) or 'Ebony and Topaz, a Collecteana,' (1927) published by the Urban League. There were several other very ambitious literary magazines, all announcing the fact that Harlem had arrived, that the American Negro was to finally have his and her day. But nothing compared to Nancy Cunard's monumental 'Anthology.' In its pages virtually every aspect of African American life and letters emerging from the decades following WWI was carefully collected and presented in a practically encyclopedic format. a rare book, much of the original edition fell victim to a german bomb during the blitz of london.
