Research Catalog

Title

Harlem shadows : the poems of Claude McKay / with an introduction by Max Eastman.

Author

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948

Publication

• New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1922]
• ©1922.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eastman, Max, 1883-1969.
• Harcourt Brace & Company, publisher.
• Quinn & Boden Company, printer.

Description

xxi, [1], 95, [1] pages; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• New York (N.Y.) > Poetry
• Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 > Provenance
• Black author
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• African Americans > Poetry
• Poems > 1922
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poems – 1922.
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• "Copyright, 1922, by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc."--verso of title page.
• "Printed in the U.S.A. by the Quinn & Boden Company, Rahway, N.J."--verso of title page.
• Last page blank.

Provenance (note)

• has McKay's poem "If we must die" inscribed in ink, in McKay's hand, on recto of first free endleaf. It is signed at the end: "Claude McKay. Sunday Eve. July 16, 1922. Written by Request of A.A. Schomburg." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
• inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "With my best wishes for the present and future work on the Negro Division. Claude McKay."
• has James Weldon Johnson's autograph.

Binding (note)

• Decorative boards backed in publisher's blue cloth, with paper spine label containing title: Harlem Shadows. Claude McKay.

Contents

Introduction -- Author's word -- The Easter flower -- To one coming north -- America -- Alfonso, dressing to wait at table -- The tropics of New York -- Flame heart -- Home thoughts -- On Broadway -- The barrier -- Adolescence -- Homing swallows -- The city's love -- North and south -- Wild May -- The plateau -- After the winter -- The wild goat -- Harlem shadows -- The white city -- The Spanish needle -- My mother -- In bondage -- December, 1919 -- Heritage -- When I have passed away -- Enslaved -- I shall return -- Morning -- Africa -- On a primitive canoe -- Winter in the country -- To winter -- Spring in New Hampshire -- On the road -- The Harlem dancer -- Dawn in New York -- The tired worker -- Outcast -- I know my soul -- Birds of prey -- The castaways -- Exhortation: Summer, 1919 -- The lynching -- Baptism -- If we must die -- Subway wind -- The night fire -- Poetry -- To a poet -- A prayer -- When dawn comes to the city -- O word of love I sing -- Absence -- Summer morn in New Hampshire -- Rest in peace -- A red flower -- Courage -- To O.E.A. -- Romance -- Flower of love -- The snow fairy -- La Paloma in London -- A memory of June -- Flirtation -- Tormented -- Polarity -- One year after -- French leave -- Jasmines -- Commemoration -- Memorial -- Thirst -- Futility -- Through agony.

Call Number

Sc Rare 821-M (McKay, C. Harlem shadows)

OCLC

• 21705458
• NYPG754560780-B

Author

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948, author.

Title

Harlem shadows : the poems of Claude McKay / with an introduction by Max Eastman.

Publisher

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1922]

Copyright Date

©1922.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-M (copy 2) (accession no. B571421) has McKay's poem "If we must die" inscribed in ink, in McKay's hand, on recto of first free endleaf. It is signed at the end: "Claude McKay. Sunday Eve. July 16, 1922. Written by Request of A.A. Schomburg." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Binding

Copy in Sc Rare 811-M (copy 2) Decorative boards backed in publisher's blue cloth, with paper spine label containing title: Harlem Shadows. Claude McKay.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-M (copy 1) (accession no. B422097) inscribed: in ink on recto of first free endleaf "With my best wishes for the present and future work on the Negro Division. Claude McKay."

Copy in Berg Coll 75-657 has James Weldon Johnson's autograph.

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Eastman, Max, 1883-1969.

Harcourt Brace & Company, publisher.

Quinn & Boden Company, printer.

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948. If we must die.

McKay, Claude, 1890-1948, donor.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 821-M (McKay, C. Harlem shadows)

Berg Coll 75-657

NCM (McKay, C. Harlem shadows)