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Lot 161

CULLEN, COUNTEE. 1903-1946.
Seven works by the Harlem Renaissance Poet:

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
New York

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CULLEN, COUNTEE. 1903-1946.

Seven works by the Harlem Renaissance Poet:
1. The Black Christ & Other Poems. New York: Harper, 1929. Publisher's cloth backed blue boards; part of the original glassine dust jacket, publisher's slipcase, splitting to edges. LIMITED EDITION number 91 of 128 copies SIGNED by Cullen.
2. Caroling Dusk. An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets. New York: Harper, 1927. Publisher's black cloth with black lettered pink paper labels on cover and spine; pictorial dust jacket, flaps detached, some light chipping to edges. FIRST EDITION. The anthology of African American poets includes: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Anne Spencer, Jessie Fauset, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen.
3.The Black Christ & Other Poems. New York: Harper, 1929. Frontispiece and illustrations by Charles Cullen. Publisher's black cloth backed blue boards. Pictorial dust jacket design by Charles Cullen. FIRST EDITION.
WITH: Color. New York, 1925. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed and signed by Cullen on front free endpaper. * Copper Sun. New York, 1927. LIMITED EDITION, number 23 of 100 copies SIGNED by Cullen. *The Ballad of the Brown Girl. New York, 1927. LIMITED EDITION, number 119 of 500 copies. PRESENTATION COPY signed by Cullen on front free endpaper. *The Medea and some Poems. New York, 1935. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket.

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