VAN VECHTEN, Carl

Nigger Heaven

First trade edition. Tiny pencil owner name, a fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. 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. A very nice copy.

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