New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927.
Price: $1,000.00
Hardcover. First edition. Decorations and illustration by Aaron Douglas. Introduction by Alain Locke. Octavo. 430pp. Quarter cloth and illustrated paper over boards with applied paper spine label. Contemporary bookplate of Lowell Thorsen Blanchard on front pastedown, rubbing at the edges of the fragile Douglas-decorated papercovered boards, modest loss at the paper spine label, lacking the rare dust jacket. A collection of 20 plays for the Negro theatre by both Black and White writers including Jean Toomer, Georgia Johnson, Willis Richardson, Lucy White, Eulalie Spence, Ridgley Torrence, Eugene O'Neill, and Paul Green. Exceptionally scarce.
Item #603799
Alain Locke
birth name: Alain Leroy Locke
born: 9/13/1886
died: 6/9/1954