Very-nice copy of this Stated First Edition (July 1924) - Burgundy boards with gold lettering - 286 pages - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - NO foxing - Tight spine -

Very-nice, clean copy of this 1926 hardback. Decorative brown boards with black lettering. Boards are clean and show only slight wear. 286 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. NO foxing. Tight spine - Pages show very-light page-tanning from age. Includes a glossary, in back of book, "of the unusual Begro words and phrases employed in thos novel."

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First U.K. Edition Comprehensive study of cats and their depiction in Law, theatre, Art, Folklore, music, fiction, the occult etc. Illustrated together with a superb bibliography. Some marking to front board and minor wear to spine.

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First Edition Corners rubbed.

Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First U.K. Edition Includes press clipping of a review. Remains of book plate inside front board.

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First U.K. Edition Boards stained and marked, contents fine.

Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First Edition Firecrackers. A Realistic Novel (1925), by Carl Van Vechten: Of the four (out of seven) novels that deal directly with what Carl Van Vechten called "the splendid drunken twenties" in New York, Firecrackers was published at the heart of the period and comes closest to depicting the Jazz Age in all its variety. After so many years, the novel will strike many readers as quaint or mannered or camp (or all three), but Van Vechten subtitled it A Realistic Novel, and the hi-jinks from the period on which it reports are apparently accurate, although informed by a masked austerity. As early as 1925, Van Vechten saw the end in sight even if few others were looking ahead that far. Coming out in the same year as books as disparate as Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, dealing with similar if markedly different milieus, Firecrackers bolsters our understanding of that strange decade. It extends the lives of some characters in Van Vechten's earlier novels, and it anticipates the frantic desperation depicted in his last one, Parties (1930), when the stock market crash brought the twenties to a thudding halt. The novel centers around a wide cast of characters whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mysterious Gunnar O'Grady in 1920s New York. Though, like most Van Vechten novels, there is more than actually meets the eye. Paul Moody, a man who finds his life utterly tedious and uneventful in New York City, tries to uncover the mystery of his young friend, while also desperately seeking his own purpose in the world. Though, little does he know that his life and the lives of those around him are about to be changed forever. Humorous, poignant, and ironic, Firecrackers boldly stands as one of the most definitive portraits on the excesses and recklessness of the Jazz Age.

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First U.K. Edition Novel set in New York's Harlem. Some rubbing to boards and spotting to prelims. Nigger Heaven (1926) is a novel written by Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), set during the Harlem Renaissance in the United States in the 1920s. The book and its title have been controversial since its publication. The title refers to the balconies of movie theaters, during the Jim Crow years, when balconies were reserved for African Americans, as the white audience sat below. The novel, on the other hand, is a portrayal of life in the "great black walled city" of Harlem. It describes the interactions of intellectuals, political activists, bacchanalian workers, and other Harlem characters. The plot of the novel concerns two people, a quiet librarian and an aspiring writer, who try to keep their love alive as racism denies them every opportunity. This roman à clef became an instant bestseller and served as an informal pocket guide to Harlem. It also split the black literary community, as some, e.g. Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Wallace Thurman, appreciated it, while others like Countee Cullen, W.E.B. DuBois, and Alain Locke regarded it as an "affront to the hospitality of black folks". The book fueled a period of "Harlemania

Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No Jacket Cloth First Edition