£95
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xvii, [iii], 284, [xxi]-xxxiv, [2] + frontispiece and 12 plates. Title-page printed in red and black. Original slate green cloth, spine and front board blocked in brown and red, black and white pictorial endpapers. Spine dulled and bumped at ends, blocking rubbed and faded, a bit of soiling to cloth and endpapers. Bookplate of the Freedom Press Library Tom Keell collection, presented by John Hewetson.
The first printing of this sociological study and celebration of Black culture and community in New York City, edited by the writer, activist, and significant contributor to the Harlem Renaissance James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938). This copy spent time in the library of the Freedom Press, an anarchist newspaper edited in the early 20th century by Tom Keell (1866-1938), and had been given to them by John Hewetson (1913-1990), another anarchist newspaper editor.
