Carl Van Vechten 17 June 1880 : 17 June 1980: A Centenary Exhibition of Some of His Gifts to Yale by GALLUP, Donald (Arranged by) - 1974

[New Haven]: [no imprint, likely Yale University Press], 1974. First Edition. Staplebound. Fine. Octavo, unpaginated (about 48pp.). A fine copy in the publisher's printed wraps. This copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Gallup, the organizer of the reception and the noted bibliographer of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound to Prentiss Taylor: "For Prentiss Taylor with best wishes and thanks Don Gallup 17 June 1980." An invitation to the event and Taylor's dinner place card are laid-in. Taylor, like Van Vechten, was one of a small number of white artists who had close associations with the Harlem Renaissance. He designed and illustrated one of Langston Hughes' most elusive publications, "The Negro Mother," and had close friendships with Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and of course Van Vechten, among many others. As such, a pleasing association.