(LITERATURE AND POETRY) LEVY FERDINAND Flashes from the Dark

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) LEVY, FERDINAND. Flashes from the Dark. Frontispiece drawing of the poet by Louis Le Broquy. Small 8vo, original gilt-pictorial black cloth, in a very good example of the dust jacket repeating the design of the cover. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1941

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first edition, with a long inscription from the poet on the title-page: "To Magdalene and Erold, with sincere best wishes & memory of the most glorious indoor picnic I have ever attended, Ferdie, Dec. 11, 1949." Levy was a West Indian medical student at the time, attending Trinity College in Dublin. He was a friend of Langston Hughes and wrote about Harlem. Levy was associated with "the Gumby Book Studio Group, a young clique of enthusiasts who were determined to play their part in helping to break the traditional inferior status of the Negro in American literature." From the jacket.