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Mariner Books, 1970. Very good paperback, as new. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Mariner Books, 1970. Very good paperback . Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Harcourt, 1970. Paperback. New. 326 pages. 8.00x5.50x1.00 inches.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fair. 326p. Original orange and blue ripple-striped paper-covered boards, backed in black cloth. 19 cm. Worn copy. Back strip darkened and lettering barely visible. A few holes in joint cloth. Ends of backstrip chipped and corners rubbed. Thin white mark running diagonally across back cover. Former owner's name (Yvette E. LeRoy) on front free endpaper. Internally sound and clean. No Jacket. Fiction about Banjo, an African American, in Marseilles (France).

Harper & Brothers. 1929. Hardcover. 1st printing. 8x5", viii+326 pp. Covers lightly rubbed, small bookshop sticker inside cover, else clean, solid, VG, no dj. .

New York/London: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine. 1929. 5th printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, but encased and protected by a new, professionally-produced FACSIMILE jacket) [a very nice copy, the gilt spine lettering a bit rubbed but otherwise the book is unblemished, and has an attractive vintage bookseller's label (from The Satyr Book Shop, Hollywood) on the rear pastedown]. The second of three novels by this Jamaican-born author, a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Set along the Marseilles waterfont, its protagonist is a jazz musician, making his away among "the flotsam and jetsam of the human tide [which] sweep into Marseilles from every corner of the world." Please NOTE that this book comes with a new FACSIMILE dust jacket (see second scanned image), but this has not been factored into our pricing. .

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fair. 326p. Original orange and blue ripple-striped paper-covered boards, backed in black cloth. 19 cm. Worn copy. Spine somewhat sloped. Joints and extremities rubbed with some loss of cloth. Rear endpaper cracking along hinge. Minor insect damage in upper right corner of first dozen pages, one of which has a short tear repaired with a piece of adhesive paper tape. Paper remnants of old bookplate or label inside front cover. Faint waterstain on bottom of some leaves. No jacket. Fiction about Banjo, an African American, in Marseilles (France).

Harper & Brothers, 1929. Hardcover. Good. (C-D, March, 1929) Smaller, sturdy book, black cloth spine and sides with black wavy design lines to red cloth boards front and back, gilt lettering near-bright on spine, a light crease down spine middle, a silver wavy design with cream background inside covers and adjacent end papers, 326 page. Tips have slight surface wear. No dust jacket. Near Very Good.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Very good plus.. First printing of the second novel by one of the most prominent members of the Harlem Renaissance, adapted into the 1937 J. Elder Wills musical film BIG FELLA starring Paul Robeson and Elisabeth Welch. The story of an African American musician along the Marseille coastline, BANJO is "a sketch of the black personality by a black writer and it pans across a whole range of blackness: West Africans, West Indians, North Americans and the mulattos of the French West Indies" (Jacqueline Kaye, 165). According to Margaret Perry, McKay's "disillusionment with the Harlem Renaissance" (119) comes through in BANJO via the contrast between the two main characters, all itself against a backdrop of French colonialism. A bright copy. 7.5'' x 5''. Original cloth-backed patterned boards. Lacking original dust jacket. Red topstain. 326 pages. Binding with light wear to spine ends, gilt somewhat effaced. Front hinge carefully repaired, with a couple tiny… Read More

HARPER & Brothers, 1929. HBNO DJ,1929, stated 1st edition, decorated Boards of Blue & Orange & Black spine with Gold Gilt, minor Wear Cvr, VG+, AS-IS, NOJACKET. First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929 First Edition (stated) First Printing with C-D code to copyright page in original orange and blue wave-pattern papered boards with gilt-stamped black cloth shelfback, no markings, NOT ex-lib, no names, no dj, binding tight pages bright & unfoxed, matching wave-pattern endpapers, excellent bright boards with light shelf rub & very slight scuffing to rear panel, spine darkened but titling legible, touch of spotting to spine cloth, slight offsetting to endpapers, else Fine copy of this Harlem Renaissance classic in its scarce first issue; 8vo; 326pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+.

Harper & Brothers Publishers. Owner name on ffep. Pink topstain. Fifth Printing. Publishers cloth-backed patterned boards. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 5th or later Printing. 1929.

New York & London:: Harper & Brothers,, 1929.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good condition - a bit of rubbing to gilt lettering on spine, upper corners slightly bumped, but overall a tight, sturdy and attractive copy. No dj. . First printing. The second novel by this Jamaican-born major writer of the Harlem Renaissance - a semi-autobiographical story of an African American musician along the Marseille coast, and a group of young drifters who spend their days panhandling and nights prowling the rough waterfront bistros. Basis for the 1937 film "Big Fella" starring Paul Robeson. Bound in the original cloth-backed red and navy patterned boards. Top edge tinted red. 326 pp.

Harper and Bros. Stated first edition. First Printing.Wear to extremities. Pink topstain. DJ in archival cover, large and tiny chips. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1929.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); navy blue and red paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-326,[2]pp. Contemporary owners penciled signatured and address to front endpaper, spine ends pushed, some dust-soil and rubbing to topstain, with circular rubber stamps of the Circulating Library Book Shop (35 E. 32nd Street, NYC) on both endpapers; contents fresh; Very Good+. In the original dustjacket designed by Aaron Douglas; unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned and lightly dust-soiled overall, with some modest wear, several tiny tears, and some shallow losses to spine ends, corner tips, and upper right edge of front panel, costing a few letters; an unrestored, Very Good example. McKay's second novel, the story of "a black, happy-go-lucky vagabond's life among the drifters who live along the waterfront in Marseilles during the 1920's; his friend, Ray,… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine in near fine Aaron Douglas-designed dust jacket, slightly toned on the spine, with very shallow loss at the crown. A very attractive copy of McKay's second novel and the basis for the 1937 J. Elder Wills musical film *Big Fella*, starring Paul Robeson helping police locate a missing boy (while also finding time to sing five songs), which also featured Elisabeth Welch and Margaret Rutherford.