McKay, Claude; Aptheker, Herbert

BANJO [Herbert Aptheker's copy]

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 326 pages. In Good condition, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth, red and navy patterned paper boards. Some general shelfwear and rubbing, particularly to spine and corners. Top edge of text block red. Ownership signature of Herbert Aptheker to half-title. Front flap of original dust jacket loose within, with glue stains to rear matching those on the front pastedown. First Edition, First Printing, with 'C-D'. Shelved Case 2.

1410994

Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $400

NOTES

Claude McKay was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Banjo, his second novel, focuses on black seamen in Marseille and through them a global view on race.

Herbert Aptheker was a historian and political activist. He wrote more than 50 books, mostly in the fields of African-American history and general U.S. history and was the literary executor for W. E. B. Du Bois.