Spider Boy, a Scenario for a Moving Picture by Carl Van Vechten - 1928

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1928. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edges bumped. Previous owner's name. Spine faded; Ex-Lib; 297 pages .

New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf. Good: cover watermarked, shaken; margins yellowed, dj worn/taped/Dust Jacket. 1928. 12mo., 297pp., (ii) .

NY: Knopf. VG book, FAIR DJ. Neatly inked name/address inside. 7.5"x5".. (1928). 2rd printing.. Hardcover. VG book, FAIR DJ(in Brodart). Bright book & DJ. Tan cloth with faded gilt spine lettering. Blue/green stained top edge. . Book FINE inside. Spine sunned a tiny bit. Top edge slightly discolored. Bright but worn DJ, complete with $2.50 price. All fold edges with small holes worn through. Front panel almost totally detached from spine, internally repaired with archival tissue. Other 3 fold lines have been selectivly reinforced. DJ spine end wear into author & publisher lettering. .

New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo. 297 pages. Bound in red vellum with cover and spine titles on fields of gilt. Clear removable mylar cover over the binding. The binding shows wear and has some foxing. The covers are a bit splayed out at the fore edges, since the vellum is generally stiff but flexible. A little wrinkling or bubbling of the paper on the front pastedown. The text is toned at the edges, especially at the fore edge. A limited edition, SIGNED by Carl Van Vechten on the limitation page. This is #54 of 75 copies printed on "Inomachi Japanese Vellum.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition, which was issued in three differnt ways (Trade; Limited to 75 copies; and this version LIMITED to 220 copies, of which 210 were for sale). Blue cloth binding, titled in gilt on front cover; spine highly decorated in blue and gilt; three compartments for the titling. Clean text; 297 pages; includes Van Vechten's "Works" and the Knopf Print Notice. SIGNED and NUMBERED on Limitation Page. Light rub to margins; splash of fade on front cover. Lacking the slipcase; in an archival plastic protector.. Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First trade edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. A good copy. First trade edition. 1 vols. 8vo. INSCRIBED TO PAUL ROBESON. A very fine association copy, inscribed in the year of publication to Paul Robeson and his wife Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson, American anthropologist, author, actor and civil rights activist. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: " For Paul & Essie Robeson with love from Carl Van Vechten / New York July 16 '28." Van Vechten was astounded by the explosion of artistic creativity in Harlem in the 1920s, and was at the vanguard of promoting Harlem Renaissance figures, including Robeson, Langston Hughes, Ethel Waters, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Wallace Thurman. Van Vechten's photographs of Robeson are among the earliest of the artist, and went far to establish his identity with the public.