Alain Locke, First Edition (34 results)

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in wraps. Small stain on bottom text block edge. ; 92 pages.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Ptg. Mass-market paperback, glossy black wrappers with illustration of face, dancer, paint brush and violin on front wrapper, praise on back wrapper from Washington Post and Times Herald, New York Times, Journal of Negro Education, 240 lightly browned pages. Creased at bottom front tip, very slight wear to most tips and edges. Near Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 16mo, 315+ pages, laminated printed wrappers, tear in rear cover "Sports Without Blood: A Letter to Dylan Thomas" by Merton is its first American appearance [ Dell'Isola F55 ]. Also "I Rise in Flames, Cried the Phoenix" by Tennessee Williams, and "The Theme of Spiritual Isolation in Carson McCullers".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. xi, 443 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Box number: ST-013. ; 1st printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo. Pp. x, 332. Alain Locke (1885-1954) earned his BA and PhD at Harvard, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, studied in Berlin, and chaired the Philosophy Department at Howard University for almost 40 years. His essays collected here deal with values, cultural relativism, ideology, moral imperatives, the concept of race and its contribution to culture. The editor provides a bibliography, chronology, and interpretations. Fine in cloth boards, with a fine jacket. No ownership or other markings.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. The Richard D. Cohen Lectures on African & African American Art with 48 color and 72 b/w illustrations. In the original shrink wrap, never opened.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. With the '1' in a number line. First book publication of essays on Hurston by the aforementioned and others. Laid in a book review by David Nicholson. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.

Stiff Printed Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Large 8vo. Pp. 100. Bound in thick, printed wraps. A touch of edge-wear, else Fine. Contains poems by Langston Hughes under the general title "Three Poems of Harlem." They are "New York," "Passing" and "Shame on You." Hughes is also listed as a Contributing Editor. In addition, this issue contains Alain Locke's vital "Wisdom of De Profundis: The Literature of the Negro, 1949." The peer-reviewed "Phylon" was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1940 at Atlanta University, now known as Clark Atlanta University.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 518 Pp. Red-Brown Cloth Lettered In White. First Printing, 1935. Slight Usage, No Marks Or Stains, Clean, Would Be Near Fine But White Spine Lettering Has Mostly Popped Out (Not Worn) With Embossed Lettering Very Strong. Published Inauspiciously In 1935, When Philosophy Was The Least Of People's Concerns.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue. The boards are heavily rubbed with a2 2/3 inch split at the edge of the spine base. The binding is sound. Ex-library with the usual markings.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. First Edition Reprint. The American Negro: His History and Literature series with William Loren Katz as General Editor and Ulysses Lee as General Editor of the Afro-American culture series. Originally published in 1936 by The Associates In Negro Folk Education. 122pp. Black and white cloth boards with title on spine and series title on front board. Also known as Bronze Booklet Number 2. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Class report. Cloth and papercovered boards. Corners bumped, a trifle soiled, very good. A survey of the Class of 1908 including autobiographical statements from most of the class members. Signed by the editor and class secretary, Guy Emerson. This was poet John Hall Wheelock's copy, and is signed by him by his statement. It also includes autobiographical statements from author Van Wyck Brooks, African-American scholar and author Alain Locke, historian Samuel Eliot Morison, and world-renowned cardiologist, Paul Dudley White.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Class report. Red cloth gilt. Light wear, near fine. A survey of the Class of 1908 including relatively long autobiographical statements by the class members. This was poet John Hall Wheelock's copy, and is signed by him by his statement. It also includes autobiographical statements from author Van Wyck Brooks, African-American scholar and author Alain Locke, historian Samuel Eliot Morison, and world-renowned cardiologist, Paul Dudley White. This issue of the class report also includes photos of the students as undergraduates, and as they were when this volume was printed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Facsimile edition of the 1940 first edition. Quarto. 224pp. Heavily illustrated in black and white with color frontispiece. Boards with slight soiling, near fine. A very uncommon edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Class report. Red cloth gilt. Fine. A survey of the Class of 1908 including autobiographical statements by the class members. This was poet John Hall Wheelock's copy, and is Signed by him by his statement. It also includes autobiographical statements from author Van Wyck Brooks, African-American scholar and author Alain Locke, historian Samuel Eliot Morison, and world-renowned cardiologist, Paul Dudley White.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Class report. Black cloth gilt. A bit of wear to the cloth at the spine ends, very good. A survey of the Class of 1908 including autobiographical statements from most of the class members. This was poet John Hall Wheelock's copy, and is Signed by him by his statement. It also includes autobiographical statements from author Van Wyck Brooks, African-American scholar and author Alain Locke, historian Samuel Eliot Morison, and world-renowned cardiologist, Paul Dudley White.

Hardcover. library edition, first printing. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design on front cover (fading). 224 pp. 1 color, numerous bw plates. This volume is organized in three sections: Section I, The Negro As Artist, with 219 bw plates; Section II, The Negro In Art, with 106 bw plates; and Section III, The Ancestral Arts, with 44 bw plates. Each section is accompanied by very useful biographical notes on included artists. Very rare early study of this topic. Color plate missing from center (should be facing page 124). VG-, age toning to cloth and inner paste-downs. a tight and clean copy otherwise.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue. Rubbing along panel edges. Book decoration and illustrations by Winold Reiss.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Decorations and illustration by Aaron Douglas. Octavo. Quarter cloth and illustrated paper over boards with applied paper spine label. Contemporary bookplate of Lowell Thorsen Blanchard on front pastedown, rubbing at the edges of the fragile Douglas-decorated papercovered boards, modest loss at the paper spine label, lacking the rare dust jacket. A collection of 20 plays for the Negro theatre by both black and white writers including Jean Toomer, Georgia Johnson, Willis Richardson, Lucy White, Eulalie Spence, Ridgley Torrence, Eugene O'Neill and Paul Green. Exceptionally scarce.

First edition. Softcover. 47 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 16 - 28, 1931. Features text contributions by AA. Schomburg, Alain Locke, Ernestine Rose, James V. Herring, and Alon Bement. Includes a checklist, brief biographies and illustrations of works by: James Lesene Wells, Lillian A. Dorsey, Sargent Claude Johnson, Albert Alexander Smith, Archibald John Motley, Jr. , James Latimer Allen, Malvin Gray Johnson, William Arthur Cooper, Richmond Barthe, and numerous others. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. A very nice copy of an early catalog on the work of African American artists. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Illustrated throughout, with 27 full-page illustrations and 37 in-text of which 50 are monochrome and 14 are colour-printed, a further 7 illustrated music scores of which 3 are full-page. (illustrator). Second printing. First edition, second printing. Large 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. A landmark of the Harlem Renaissance, representing the creative endeavours of the New Negro Movement. The anthology portrays the African-American community's pursuit of civil rights and a new, diverse identity, offering a compelling reflection of the era's social and artistic transformation. Small ownership stamp to title-page and front endpaper, with further stamp and ink name to half-title; some edge-wear to boards, slight fraying to spine at head. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frontis: Picture entitled " The Brown Madonna." Book decoration and illustrations by Winold Reiss. Six Drawings and Decorative Designs by Aaron Douglas. Bibliography. Former free library stamps on title page, dedication page, foreword page and numberous pages. Paragraphs backets in margins throughout. 446pp. Maroon cloth boards with title on spine. Front hindge loose. Rare.

Condition: Very good plus. First printing of this anthology of works by Black Americans, from the 18th-century poetry of Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century essays of Alain Locke and much in between. Charles Blockson notes that, on its publication in 1941, THE NEGRO CARAVAN was "the most important single volume of Afro-American writing ever published" (58). Its three editors assembled some of the most influential pieces by Black Americans through the 1940s, including songs, plays, narratives of enslaved people, poetry, essays, folk literature and more. Each section is accompanied by a critical introduction contextualizing the pieces in their wider genres and in Black history. THE NEGRO CARAVAN represents a major early effort at defining a canon of Black literature; this is an unusually nice copy. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth boards with gilt and black lettering. No dust jacket. xviii, 1082 pages, including index. Owner name in pencil to front flyleaf, "Tyler Long." Binding with mild wear, a touch of dampstaining to lower spine. Leaves with a hint of toning and occasional edgewear. Firm.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Exhibition catalog. Forward by John Davis Hatch, Jr. Introduction by Alain Locke. Tall octavo. vii, 77pp. Illustrated with halftone portraits and images of artworks. Owner name ("Alma H. Powell," possibly the African-American Michigan librarian Alma Harrod Powell) on the title page. Ms. Powell has filled portions of four blank pages with relevant inked or penciled notes and newspaper clippings, along with one brief inked note in the text. Most of the spine held together with tape and with a chip at the crown and the split at the base, topedge, and first page of the foreword ink-stained (the foreword is still legible), wartime publication label tipped on the front fly with a bit of loss affecting a couple of words, sound but good only. Includes brief biographies of the artists.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. Octavo. 122pp. Owner name on front cover and title page, small slice of the margin of one leaf cut away, a very good or better copy. One in the series of Bronze Booklets. Increasingly scarce.

Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. xviii, 446 pp. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue. Good with moderate rubbing and toning to covers, mottling to front cover, boards exposed at edges. Dust-soiling and light staining to upper edge of textblock, dampstaining to endpapers, pencil inscriptions to front endpapers and half-title. First two leaves clipped at the lower corner, contents toned with occasional foxing, binding exposed at multiple places. Lacking jacket. A serviceable copy. A landmark African American anthology featuring stories, essays, and poetry by the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance movement: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and more.

[African American][Music] Locke, Alain. The Negro and His Music. Washington, D.C.: The Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936. First edition. 8vo. 142 pages. Original orange wrappers with an Art Deco-inspired geometric cover design printed in black and maroon, staple-bound. A foundational text in the study of African American music. The Negro and His Music by Alain Locke, the esteemed philosopher and architect of the Harlem Renaissance, examines the profound contributions of Black musicians to American culture. Published as part of the Bronze Booklet series, the work situates spirituals, jazz, and blues as not only artistic expressions but also as historical documents of the African American experience. Locke emphasizes the significance of Black music in shaping the broader American musical landscape, illustrating how the rhythms, themes, and improvisational techniques born from the Harlem Renaissance influenced both classical compositions and popular genres of the 20th century. As the first African American Rhodes Scholar and a professor at Howard University, Locke was instrumental in fostering the careers of Black artists and intellectuals, positioning this work as an essential theoretical framework for understanding Black cultural expression. Some toning to wrappers with light wear to spine, light foxing to interior pages. Overall, very good condition. A key work in Harlem Renaissance scholarship, this booklet underscores Locke's role in elevating African American music as an integral part of the national artistic canon.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing of this Harlem Renaissance cornerstone. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue. Very Good with rubbing through to edges with heavier wear to corners and spine ends, covers worn. Contents tanned with several leaves roughly opened. The leading African American poets and writers of the early 20th century are featured in this important anthology which came to define the Harlem Renaissance movement: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and more.

Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Alain Locke and inscribed to "an old friend," Allan R. Freelon on the front free endpaper. Freelon (1895-1960) was a prominent Harlem Renaissance artist, pioneering educator, and civil rights activist. 224 pp. with color frontispiece "Mother and Child" by Sargeant Johnson and 4 pp. color insert "The Amistad Murals" tipped in facing p, 124. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with darkened spine and edges with light soiling overall. Extremities lightly worn with minor foxing to endsheets. Faint toning to edges of textblock. No jacket, likely as issued. An important association between Locke ("Dean" of the Harlem Renaissance and popularizer of African American art) and Freelon on the first serious book-length study of Black artists. Two of Freelon's Impressionist-style paintings are featured in this work alongside work by Edmonia Lewis, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Hughie Lee-Smith and Jacob Lawrence.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue. Very Good with with rubbing to boards especially at edges, two indentations to rear cover at spine and a light crease the rear board at the top corner. Former owner bookplate to front free endpaper. Pages tanned, with occasional soiling, several preliminary hinges slightly over-opened. The leading African American poets and writers of the early 20th century are featured in this important anthology, which came to define the Harlem Renaissance movement: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and more.