Black Manhattan.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. 8vo. 12 plates. Original slate blue cloth decorated with chain motif in brown, orange lettering to upper cover and spine in the rare publisher’s dust jacket. Condition: Lettering rubbed on spine and covers, cloth frayed at ends; jacket price clipped, but crisp, bright, unfaded and unrestored. first edition of this history of the African-American community in New York. Johnson’s life was remarkably varied; though remembered chiefly as a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance, he was also one of the first African-American professors at New York University and was a United States consul in both Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Black Manhattan.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. 8vo. 12 plates. Original slate blue cloth decorated with chain motif in brown, orange lettering to upper cover and spine in the rare publisher’s dust jacket. Condition: Lettering rubbed on spine and covers, cloth frayed at ends; jacket price clipped, but crisp, bright, unfaded and unrestored. first edition of this history of the African-American community in New York. Johnson’s life was remarkably varied; though remembered chiefly as a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance, he was also one of the first African-American professors at New York University and was a United States consul in both Venezuela and Nicaragua.
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