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Color
by Countee Cullen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good, tight square binding, soiling to boards, fray to corners and extremities of spine, light foxing and soiling to endpap/Fair jacket, with fairly heavy chipping to edges and spine. Flaps have fairly neatly split from panels, and spine is close to fo
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925. First Edition, second printing. 12mo Hardcover, quarter yellow cloth over patterned boards with a mounted title plate to top board and spine, 108 pp. Very Good, tight square binding, soiling to boards, fray to corners and extremities of spine, light foxing and soiling to endpapers, very light scattered marks from Doris Funnye Innis, who besides providing her signature, pens a few lines herself in blue pen to the rear free endpaper: "I feel life all around me -- I feel life all around me + I must touch it!"/Fair jacket, with fairly heavy chipping to edges and spine. Flaps have fairly neatly split from panels, and spine is close to following suit. Spine and edges tones, general soiling and rubbing throughout except the panels, which remain bright.. First collection from the young poet who helped ignite the powderkeg that was the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen began publishing to acclaim as a high school student in Manhattan and a few years after graduation published Color with a major publisher. Scarce early printing, especially so in jacket.
Reviews
On Jul 22 2017, a reader said:
I've never read poetry before, it just did not hold my interest, until I accidentally picked this book up, while thumbing through a box of books I was going to donate. Needless to say, it will now stay on my office shelf for inspiration, calmness and a small taste of spirituality.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 622
- Title
- Color
- Author
- Countee Cullen
- Format/Binding
- 12mo Hardcover, quarter yellow cloth over patterned boards with a mounted title plate to top board and spine, 108 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, tight square binding, soiling to boards, fray to corners and extremities of spine, light foxing and soiling to endpap
- Jacket Condition
- Fair jacket, with fairly heavy chipping to edges and spine. Flaps have fairly neatly split from panels, and spine is close to fo
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, second printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- Harlem, Renaissance, Cullen, Poet, Poetry, Black,
Terms of Sale
Better Read Than Dead
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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