VAN VECHTEN, Carl

Nigger Heaven

First English edition. Slight foxing to the endpapers else fine in very good plus dustwrapper with small chips at the spine ends and corners. Very scarce in the especially stiff and brittle paper jacket. The English editions of Knopf novels were issued in very small numbers and few survive in jacket. 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.

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