VAN VECHTEN, Carl

Nigger Heaven. With a Note by the Author - and Critical Commentary by George Schuyler of the "Pittsburgh Courier"

First Avon edition, and first with the author's note and Schuyler's commentary. Small tear near the top of the spine, and the pages uniformly darkened, else bright and fresh, near fine copy. A novel about a young couple in Harlem, set amid the cabarets and soirees of the Harlem Renaissance, which has been controversial since it was published because of its title. However, Van Vechten, who was white, was tireless in his support of African-American artists and writers even after the glamour of the Renaissance, which had drawn so many white intellectuals to Harlem, had waned. One of the most sought after mass market paperbacks.

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