Historical Memorabilia & Americana

HURSTON, Zora Neale (1891-1960). A pair of first editions. Including: Mules and Men. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1935. 8vo. With ten illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias, including inserted frontispiece and plates. Publisher’s full brown cloth, front board and spine stamped in dark brown (spine toned, creased and worn, boards soiled, worn, endleaves toned with several pieces of tape, some thumbsoiling, toning to text, with a few pages roughly opened and torn). [Together with:] Tell My Horse. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1938. 8vo. With photographic frontispiece and 13 leaves, inserted throughout. Publisher’s blue and red striped cloth, spine lettered in white (spine toned and worn, boards worn and soiled, endleaves soiled, scuffed, and with several pieces of tape, text thumbsoiled, with some occasional tears and chips). FIRST EDITIONS. Each of these books is from the library of Claude Albert Barnett (1889-1967), the founder of the Associated Negro Press, with his bookplates on both fp’s. From the collection of the Barnett family.