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McKAY, Claude (1890-1948). Harlem Shadows. With an introduction by Max Eastman. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1922].
8vo. Original orange-red buckram, printed spine label (some cockling to covers); original printed dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION, possibly in a variant cloth, of this groundbreaking volume that was the Harlem Renaissance’s first book of poetry. McKay, a proud Jamaican-born poet, was considered the most powerful voice in postwar Black poetry and one of the principal forces in bringing the Negro Literary Awakening. In a RARE AND PRISTINE DUST JACKET.