Between the Covers

Hardcover. Fourteenth printing. Very good with edges slightly bumped, a touch cocked and with paper remnant on the rear board, possibly from the now missing jacket. With the bookplate of African-American poet Mari Evans on the front pastedown. 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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