A Long Way From Home

New York: Lee Furman, (1937).

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Hardcover. First edition, green cloth (also issued in orange cloth binding with applied paper labels, we've seen no definitive evidence of which precedes). Bump and tiny light stain on the rear board else fine in just about fine Aaron Douglas-illustrated dustwrapper with a faint corresponding stain on the rear panel. A much nicer than usual copy. McKay's recitation of his experiences during his self-imposed exile abroad.

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Item #443094 A Long Way From Home. Claude McKAY.

Claude McKay
birth name: Claude McKay
born: 9/15/1890
died: 5/22/1948

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Biography

Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose Home to Harlem (1928) was the most popular novel written by an American black to that time. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

Many of McKay's books are often distinguished by the vivid dustjacket art work, much of it designed by Aaron Douglas, including his books Banjo (1929), Home to Harlem (1928), A Long Way from Home (1937), and Banana Bottom (1933). However, his first book, Songs from Jamaica (1912), published in London in wrappers is harder to find.more