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Additional authors

1. Eastman, Max, 1883-1969
2. Harcourt Brace & Company, publisher
3. Quinn & Boden Company, printer
4. McKay, Claude, 1890-1948. If we must die
5. McKay, Claude, 1890-1948, donor
6. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner
7. Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, former owner, inscriber

Description

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

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

1. Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938 -- Provenance.
2. African Americans -- Poetry.
3. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Poetry.
4. New York (N.Y.) -- Poetry.

Genre/Form

1. Poems – 1922.
2. Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Contents

1. 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

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

Language

1. English

Note

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

Provenance (note)

1. 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.
2. 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."
3. has James Weldon Johnson's autograph.

Binding (note)

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

Author

1. McKay, Claude, 1890-1948, author.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Provenance

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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."
2. Copy in Berg Coll 75-657 has James Weldon Johnson's autograph.

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1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request access to this item in the Berg Collection
3. Request Access to Special Collections Material
4. Full text available via HathiTrust (Library of Congress copy)

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Eastman, Max, 1883-1969.
2. Harcourt Brace & Company, publisher.
3. Quinn & Boden Company, printer.
4. McKay, Claude, 1890-1948. If we must die.
5. McKay, Claude, 1890-1948, donor.
6. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
7. Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, former owner, inscriber.