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Black Opals: Volume I, Number 3, June 1928 [and] Volume II, Number 4, Christmas 1928. [Gertrude Parthenia McBrown and Lois Mailou Jones' Copies, respectively]

Black Opals: Volume I, Number 3, June 1928 [and] Volume II, Number 4, Christmas 1928. [Gertrude Parthenia McBrown and Lois Mailou Jones' Copies, respectively] by Bright, Nellie R.; Arthur Huff Fauset et al. [Editors]; Lois Mailou Jones [Illustrations]; Gertrude Parthenia McBrown; Walter Waring; Bessie Calhoun Bird et al. [Contributors]

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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Title
Black Opals: Volume I, Number 3, June 1928 [and] Volume II, Number 4, Christmas 1928. [Gertrude Parthenia McBrown and Lois Mailou Jones' Copies, respectively]
Author
Bright, Nellie R.; Arthur Huff Fauset et al. [Editors]; Lois Mailou Jones [Illustrations]; Gertrude Parthenia McBrown; Walter Waring; Bessie Calhoun Bird et al. [Contributors]
Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Philadelphia: Black Opals, 1928. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, limited issues. Number 235 of 250 copies and Number 153 of 200 copies printed. 20; 20 pp. Bound in publisher's respective yellow and orange printed wraps, with black and white illustrations. Ownership inscription of Black Opal contributor, stage director, playwright and actress Gertrude Parthenia McBrown (1898-1989) to Number III; "Return to Lois M. Jones" inscribed to front cover of Christmas issue with an additional gift inscription to Volume IV that reads, "To Miss L. M. Jones with sincere affection of the Editorial Staff - Xmas 1928." Very Good with soiling, wear and stray marks to wraps, chipping and several closed tears to covers, stitching of Vol. III perished. A few stray marks to contents of Vol. IV, manuscript copy of James Weldon John's poem "The Awakening" on the inside rear cover. Two scarce issues of short-lived Philadelphia literary magazine in the same vein as Harlem's FIRE!!. Features work by Harlem Renaissance luminaries such as Jessie Fauset and Gwendolyn B. Bennettt, paired with lesser known young black authors from local public schools and nearby universities. Originally intended as an outlet for young black writers, it was seen as a way for older established authors to encourage and foster younger talent, with a slogan of "Hail Negro Youth," and a list of editorial staff and contributors being a veritable who's who of the Harlem Renaissance--Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Alain Locke and Arthur Huff Fauset. The June issue also includes a review of Nella Larsen's recently published novel Quicksand. Quite scarce.
High Thursday

High Thursday by Burlingame, Roger

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Title
High Thursday
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Burlingame, Roger
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ReadInk (United States)
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Near Fine in Very Good- dj
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good- dj. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good sound copy, minimal shelfwear, faint spotting and light dust-soiling to top of text block; the jacket has a handful of small edge-nicks, is scuffed on the front and rear panels, faded and scuffed along the spine, with a shallow chip at the top of the spine]. Novel set in the Bohemian/art world of New York City, centering around an unsuccessful artist -- "a wild, disorderly, masculine fellow, who could never look after himself in any practical sense" -- who becomes a great critic and journalist, thanks in large measure to the efforts of his devoted and level-headed wife to control his worst impulses and channel his talents -- which doesn't stop him from becoming infatuated with another woman. A contemporary critic commented on the book's "good story, written intelligently, intelligibly, and, what is more important, interestingly," further praising the author's "rapid pencil sketches of New York's higher Bohemia, not the people who pretend to do things, but those who really do." The author had been a book editor at Scribner's from 1914 until 1926; this was his third novel, and he would go on to write more than two dozen more books, primarily biography and non-fiction. .

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