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JOHNSON, JAMES WELDON. 1930 BLACK MANHATTAN 1ST EDITION IN SCARCE DUST WRAPPER
Americana & American social history:- Johnson, James Weldon. 1930 Black Manhattan. First edition, first impression, publ. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. Publisher's orig. cloth binding with chain design stamped, complete with very rare orig. unclipped dust wrapper, in two pieces with spine significantly lacking to head & tail (piece lacking to head loosely inserted), large chip to head, & multiple tears to spine, in need of sympathetic restoration, advertisements for Modern Negro Literature to verso, upper edge red; occ. pencil notes to ffep, contemp. ownership inscription & gift inscription to half title page, illustrated with plates. An important social examination into the history of Black people in New York City, by acclaimed civil rights activist, NAACP leader & author James Weldon Johnson. Scarcely seen complete with the jacket. 8vo.
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