McKAY, Claude (1890-1948). Harlem Shadows. Max Eastman, introduction. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.

Small 8vo. Original blue cloth-backed boards, printed spine label (spine sunned, label chipped at edges, fore-corners rubbed). Provenance: Earle Y. Sullivan (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION of this groundbreaking volume that was the Harlem Renaissance’s first book of poetry. McKay, a proud Jamaican-born poet, was considered the most powerful voice in postwar Black poetry and one of the principal forces in bringing the Negro Literary Awakening.