CUNARD, Nancy (1896-1965, editor). Negro. London: Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co, 1934. 4° (305 x 244mm). Folding colour-printed map, illustrations, some full-page. (Light browning.) Original black cloth, upper board and spine lettered in red, lower board with map of North America printed in red (a few small stains).
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1150 COPIES, in the later black variant of the binding. Cunard's monumental anthology of commentaries and articles on many aspects of black life, culture and politics, is written with contributions by George Antheil, Ren Crevel, Henry W. Crowder, Norman Douglas, Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, William Plomer, William Carlos Williams, and others. Ezra Pound describes the first edition as bound in 'brown linen (or, later, shiny black cloth)'. Ezra Pound, Gallup. (1983) B33.
CUNARD, Nancy (1896-1965, editor). Negro. London: Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co, 1934. 4° (305 x 244mm). Folding colour-printed map, illustrations, some full-page. (Light browning.) Original black cloth, upper board and spine lettered in red, lower board with map of North America printed in red (a few small stains).
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1150 COPIES, in the later black variant of the binding. Cunard's monumental anthology of commentaries and articles on many aspects of black life, culture and politics, is written with contributions by George Antheil, Ren Crevel, Henry W. Crowder, Norman Douglas, Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, William Plomer, William Carlos Williams, and others. Ezra Pound describes the first edition as bound in 'brown linen (or, later, shiny black cloth)'. Ezra Pound, Gallup. (1983) B33.
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