Vechten (Carl van) Nigger Heaven
£395
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1928.
14th printing. With later inscribed autograph card from the author loosely inserted. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A highly attractive, pictorial jacketed edition of this important work, a roman a clef set during the Harlem Renaissance in the United States in the 1920s.
Out of stock
Internally very good; cloth slightly softened at head of spine, overall very good; jacket a little rubbed at extremities, minor marking, but overall very good.
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