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Prancing Nigger

Prancing Nigger

Prancing Nigger

Prancing Nigger

by Firbank, Ronald

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NY: Brentano's, 1924. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, Black cloth covers with faded gilt title. 126 pages with frontispiece illustration in 2-colors by Robert Locher. Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Firbank's first book published in the United States, a novel of West Indian life and manners. It was the first of his works that wasn't entirely self-financed, and despite the miniscule print run, the book was given a lavish treatment by Brentano's, published with a generous introduction by Carl Van Vechten, who was intent on making Firbank's work better known in America. Understandably, the inflammatory title roused an outcry in the African American press, though Nancy Cunard wrote a defense of Firbank and his use of the name in the Associated Negro Press, and the novel received a surprisingly positive review by W.E.B. Du Bois. Light shelf wear. Record # 383379

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Title
Prancing Nigger
Author
Firbank, Ronald
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
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None
Edition
1st
Publisher
Brentano's
Place of Publication
NY
Date Published
1924
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