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CUNARD (NANCY, editor)
Negro Anthology... 1931-1933, FIRST EDITION, Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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CUNARD (NANCY, editor)

Negro Anthology... 1931-1933, FIRST EDITION, folding map printed in red and blue, numerous photographic illustrations throughout, corner of second front free endpaper cut away, publisher's brown cloth lettered in red on upper cover, and with map of "The Black Belt of America" on lower cover, 4to, Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934

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"It was necessary to make this book - and I think in this manner, an Anthology of some 150 voices of both races - for recording of the struggles and achievements, the persecutions and the revolts against them, of the Negro people" (Foreword). The contributors include Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Samuel Beckett, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Dreiser, Henry Crowder, and Countee Cullen. It is thought that 1000 copies were printed, but it is always stated that many of these were destroyed in a warehouse during the Blitz.

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