(LITERATURE AND POETRY) MCKAY CLAUDE Home to Harlem

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) MCKAY, CLAUDE. Home to Harlem. 8vo, original cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards, in a lovely Aaron Douglas dust jacket with some minor wear to the spine extremities; the latter slightly faded, as is common with this purple paper; title-page to dedication page roughly opened with a short closed tear; retains a portion of the original book-band advertising "A Negro's own novel---for those who enjoyed 'Nigger Heaven,' 'Porgy' and 'Black April.'" [NB: none of which were by black authors!] New York, 1928

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first edition. One of the key titles in the Harlem Renaissance canon. McKay had been living in France when he began this, his first novel. It won him the Harmon Foundation Gold Award for Literature in 1928. The Harmon Foundation did not restrict its patronage to art alone.