Cayton (Horace R.) and St Clair Drake. Black Metropolis
£250
London, Jonathan Cape, 1946.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A handsome first UK edition of this important anthropological and sociological study of the African-American urban experience in the first half of the 20th century.
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Gift inscription to front free endpaper, some mild foxing to endpapers; cloth very good; jacket very good.
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