Detroit: Broadside Press, (1974). First edition - The third book in the Broadside Critics Series. Includes a chapter on the Harlem Renaissance as well as on the influence of blues and jazz on contemporary poets. 80 pgs, including notes and bibliography. ISBN: 0-910296987.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1945. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of African American migration within the United States, from the Underground Railroad in pre-civil war days, to the years following the Emancipation when newly freed slaves headed north and west, and during World War I when there was a labor shortage in the factories of the North and continuing up until the time this book was written. SIGNED on the front endpaper by both authors and inscribed by Conroy ' For my friend Gloria Freidman with the best of wishes" and dated 10/12/45 and underneath this appears 'and also those of' and the signature of Bontemps. References, index. 266 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in Harlem in the 1920s, during the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. "He captures the fervor of post-World War I black optimism, contrasted by rampant racial bigotry, while chronicling the lives of three sisters: Velma, Barnard graduate and aspiring writer; Miriam, indefatigable activist for back-to-Africa nationalist Marcus Garvey; and Louise, whose fair skin leads her to the Cotton Club and show business." (Publisher's Weekly) Warmly and personally INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated 12 March 89, in the year of publication. 447 pp. ISBN: 0-671658840.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1931 (1938). Hardcover - The third novel by this important Harlem Renaissance writer, considered the first 'modern' African American woman novelist, editor of 'The Crisis.' Introduction by Zona Gale and a foreword by Jessie Fauset in which she comments that this the story of dark Americans who wear their joy and rue very much as the white American. Although this novel was very popular,as evidenced by 6 printings in just 7 years, early copies of any printing by the original publisher have become increasingly hard to find. 341 pp.

Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book described as "the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Combining cutting-edge theory, extensive historical and archival research, and close readings of individual texts, Gruesser reveals the diversity of the African American response to Countee Cullen's question, 'What is Africa to Me?'" Extensive notes, works cited, index. xiii, 205 pp. ISBN: 0-813121639.

New York: Henry Holt, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth book - a revisiting of the Harlem during several eras: in its early days as a pastoral suburb; during the Harlem Renaissance of the 20's, and in its decline into a symbol of urban despair. Small octavo. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-4851-0.

New York: Henry Holt, (1951.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A late and uncommon collection of poetry by Hughes - a portrait of the community of Harlem in transition after the war. Dedicated to Ralph and Fanny Ellison. An interesting association copy "To my dear friend Kathy by way of my mother Alice C. Browning. I know you will cherish this as I cherish all of her books." and dated in 1985, the year Browning died. Browning was an active member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, who, among other things, founded and published the 1940s magazine "Negro Story" which included contributions by Langston Hughes. 75 pp.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1939. dj. Hardcover first edition - Hurston's novel of Moses from an African-American folklore point of view - as the great 'Voodoo Man' of the Bible. In the first issue binding, finely woven reddish-brown cloth stamped in orange on the front boards and spine.

New York: Harper Collins, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes all of her published short stories, listed chronologically by the date of their first appearance and seven not previously published stories. Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Sieglinde Lemke and an afterword by Gates. Bibliography. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-060167327.

New York: Scribner's, 1948. dj. Hardcover first edition - Hurston's fourth, and final, novel. This is the story of Arvey and Jim Meserve - Jim had gumption and wanted to get ahead, and so they moved from the Suwanee to the citrus belt in Florida, but the heart of the story is Arvey's long stumbling progress towards self-discovery and fulfillment. On the back cover of the dustjacket is a 2 column brief biography headed by 'Zora Neale Hurston writes about herself:' Original price of $3.00 still present. 311 pp.

New York: Chelsea House Publishers, (1991). A biography of this important Harlem Renaissance author, written for younger readers and illustrated throughout with photographs. Introductory essay by Coretta Scott King. A title in the Black Americans of Achievement series, edited by Nathan Irvin Huggins. List of books by Hurston, a chronology, suggestions for further reading and index. Slightly oversized square format. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-791011542.

New York: Viking, 1935. dj. Hardcover first edition - The title poem of this collection was originally privately published in an edition of only 200 copies, and was written in reaction to the news that the when the US was sending a contigent of gold star mothers to Europe to visit the graves of their sons, that the Negro mothers would not be allowed to sail on the same ship as the white gold-star mothers. Also includes poems from his first book of poetry and some which had not previously been published in book form.

New York: Pocket Books, (1968). First edition - Pocket Cardinal Edition 50184. A vintage paperback edition of McKay's best known work, originally published in 1928. 180 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

New York: G. K. Hall, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the African-American Women Writers 1910-1940 series. While very little information is available on the two authors in this volume, both Pitt and Scott were born in 1900, and both of these novels were written when the authors were in their late 30's, towards the end of the Harlem Renaissance, and towards the end of the Depression. Both novels were published in 1939, and the short story 'Case 999' was published in 1952. In addition to the introduction by Mobley, this volume includes reproductions of the original publications of these works,. ISBN: 0-8161-16342.

Sacramento, CA: Act Three, 1988. First edition - Poetry chapbook by this African American author: the theme is the Harlem Renaissance, both as a tribute to the writers of that period, and a study of the contrasts made by the passage of 60 years. Cover design by D. Woodard.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1955. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the life and work of Van Vechten - as a novelist, as a music critic and as a photographer - during this period of transition and change in American life. Illustrated with photographs by Van Vechten himself, Man Ray and others. Bibliography, index, 150 pages.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Hardcover - Ten powerful short stories of Afro-Caribbean life, set in the West Indies, Panama, and the Central American isthmus. An uncommon book (in any original edition) by this Harlem Renaissance writer who was born in Guyana. Although DuBois praised this book for its significance - "Here is a book of ten stories of death, which, with impressionistic pen and little plot, show forth with singular vividness the life of black laborers of the West Indies. There is superstition, unusual dialect, singular economic glimpses; but above all, there is truth and human sympathy" he also called it "hard reading." 282 pp.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories (including her first short story "The Typewriter" which took second prize in a writing contest when she was only 17) and autobiographical essays, selected and introduced by the author - the last living writer from the days of the Harlem Renaissance. Preface by Mary Helen Washington. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-385-471459.

New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969. Hardcover - West's first novel originally published in 1948. Although she was born in Boston, and lived most of her life on Martha's Vineyard, she worked in New York City during the Depression and is associated with the Harlem Renaissance, both through her association with Langston Hughes and other figures of the movement, as well as editing the significant but short-lived quarterly literary journals - Challenge in 1934 and The New Challenge in 1937. New introduction by William H. Robinson. A title in "The American Negro, His History and Literature" series. A relatively early publication that called attention to West and surprisingly uncommon. 347 pp.