WHEN HARLEM WAS IN VOGUE by David Levering Lewis

NY: ALFRED A KNOPF. CLEAN COPY. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1981.

CollectibleVeryGood. 1981, stated first edition on cloth with dark upper text block edge. Text block, boards and binding are pristine. Dust wrapper in like new condition, tight hinges as if unread. Very clean, nearly like new, mild tanning. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

New York:: Knopf,, 1981.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in Fine unclipped dust jacket David Lewis documents the spirit and substance of New York City's black center during its best years. Lewis traces the history of blacks in Harlem from 1905, when they began moving uptown, to the riot of 1935. These were the crazy years in Harlem in the 1920s where the poets, musicians, intellectuals and entrepreneurs put the "jazz" in the Jazz Age. This is the history of Harlem's renaissance as the focal point of poets, novelists, intellectuals, entrepreneurs, mansions, nightclubs, dives, glamour and decadence in the years following the First World War.

New York: Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. VG (Boards are lightly edgeworn; textblock edges are scuffed and smudged; interior is clean; binding is solid.)/Good (DJ is moderately toned, edgeworn, scuffed and smudged.). Cloth boards with white lettering; white DJ with photo-illustration; xiv, 381 pp.; 16 unnumbred leaves of plates. "The dazzling years of the Harlem Renaissance: the poets and novelists, the intellectuals and the entrepreneurs, the mansions and dives and decadence and glamor that energized the Jazz Age." -- DJ.

New York: Knopf, 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 381pp. Illustrated. Remainder stamp on topedge else fine in near fine dust jacket with a couple of tiny tears. An important history of the Harlem Renaissance.

Knopf, 1981. Gd. condition - An exploration Harlem as community ... (TA3). Hard Cover. Good.