Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. xxi, [1], 355, [5] p.; 24 cm. Dark brown cover with gilt spine title. Dust jacket. Part of the series Blacks in the New World. "At its high point in 1938, the Harlem Communist Party had close to a thousand black members and mobilized many thousands more through its work with trade unions, WPA workers, the Workers Alliance, tenants unions, legal defense organizations and cultural groups. In a work largely based on primary materials and interviews with the leading black Communists from the Thirties, Naison is the first to fully explore this provocative encounter." -- dust jacket. Book is in Very Good Condition: occasional red marks in margins and a few underlinings through p. 9; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; closed 1-cm. tear from lower edge of front section; clean and bright.

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Bookseller: Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 008799
Title: Communists in Harlem during the Depression
Author: Naison, Mark
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: very good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0252006445
ISBN 13: 9780252006449
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Place of Publication: Urbana, IL
Date Published: 1983
Bookseller catalogs: American History;

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