The New Negro: An Interpretation

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925. First edition. 8-3/4 x 6-1/4 inches. xviii,446pp. Publisher's blue paper-covered boards backed in tan buckram stamped in blue. Color and b&w plates, b&w illustrations, illustrated endpapers. Boards scuffed and edgeworn; spine tanned, with short split to head and stain to foot; light foxing to endpapers and some plates; occasional minor soiling to margins. Good.

First edition of this groundbreaking work of the Harlem Renaissance, featuring pieces by Locke, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Angelina Grimke, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, and Jessie Fauset, among others. Also includes illustrations by Winold Reiss, Aaron Douglas, and Michael Covarrubias.

Uncommon in commerce.