Search Results: Books by locke alain editor

Touchstone, 1999-03-01. Reprint. paperback. Used - Good. 5x1x8. Some marking. Very serviceble copy.

Penguin Classics, 2022. Paperback. New. 368 pages. 7.75x5.06x0.59 inches.

Temple University Press, 1991-02-05. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. 332pp. Tight, sturdy, and square; text very good+. Light shelfwear. NOT ex-lib. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Touchstone Books, 1997. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 452 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.25 inches.

Dover Pubns, 2021. Paperback. New. 429 pages. 7.75x5.00x1.00 inches.

Touchstone Books, 1997. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 452 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.25 inches.

Touchstone, 1999-03-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Black Classic Press. paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Privately Printed for the Class by the Cosmos Press, 1933. Hardcover. 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.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Privately Printed for the Class by the Cosmos Press, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good. Class report. Red cloth gilt. Soiling, and an ink splatter on the bottom edge of the pages, very good. 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.

(Cambridge): Printed for the Class / The University Press, 1928. Hardcover. 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.

New York: National Urban League, 1940. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; pp.[33]-64; illus. Wrappers dust-soiled, nearly detached at spine, with a small piece of sticker residue to lower front wrapper, and rubber-stamp of the Knoxville College Library at upper front wrapper and upper margin of p.41; contents complete; Good. Complete issue of this sociological and literary journal produced by the National Urban League. Published between 1923-1949, Opportunity was significant for fostering many of the literary and artistic voices of the Harlem Renaissance period, as well as printing academic articles on the various social problems facing African Americans. Contents include contributions by Elmer Carter, Katharine F. Lenroot, Carl Van Vechten, Alain Locke, John Dannenfelser, T.A. Daley, Vincent Browne, and others. DANKY 4635.

(Cambridge): Produced for the Class by the Harvard University Printing Office, 1948. Hardcover. 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.

(Cambridge): (Harvard University Class of 1908), 1923. Hardcover. 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.

Washington: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. frontis (color), black & white illustrations, 222p. Original green cloth. 31 cm. Moderate cover soil and wear. Backstrip and lettering moderately faded. Bookplate (Fannie [?] Targ). Contents sound and clean. No jacket.

Albany: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1945. First Edition. About Very Good. First edition. Original wraps. About Very Good with staining and separation to front wrapper at bottom staple, small chip nearby; faint dampstain to fore edge of prelims and front wrap. An illustrated collection of biographies of prominent African American artists with an introduction by Alain Locke, the philosophical architect of the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement. Each artist is listed with a biography and pictures of select works. Artists include Romare Bearden, Eldzier Cortor, Lois M. Jones, and many others. Uncommon.

Washington: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis (color), black & white illustrations, 222p. Recent quarterbinding (marbled boards attractively backed in leather). 31 cm. Horizontal crease (as usual) on frontis. Other internal soiling and wear but generally sound. No jacket. When we got this book, the binding was beyond repair. We had the binder preserve and mount a small piece (less than the size of a business-card) of the original endpaper on which Locke had INSCRIBED this copy to Dorothy Maynor, the talented singer and founder of the Harlem School of the Arts.

Washington, D.C.: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940. First Edition. Very Good+. 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… Read More

NY: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 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.

New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925. First Edition. Very Good. 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. Bookplate of American writer and illustrator Katharine Sturges (1890-1979) and her husband Clayton Knight on front pastedown, parents of Hilary Knight, who is best-know for illustrating the Eloise series. Very Good with toning and light soiling to spine, minor fading to boards and rubbing especially at edges. Contents lightly tanned, small pencil notation to rear free endpaper. 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.