Author: Firbank, Ronald
Title: Prancing Nigger
Description: New York, Brentano's, 1926. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering; white dj with red lettering and purple illustration; XI, 126 pp; purple illustrated frontispiece with guard sheet. An introduction by Carl Van Vechten. "During the summer of 1922 Ronald Firbank announced, to a startled world, that he was about to compose a study of West Indian life and manners, with which purpose in view he sailed, in August, for the Spanish Main. It was in the islands of British West India that the first sketches of Prancing Nigger came to be written and, in Bordighera, during the following winter, the book was completed. As a study of life and manners it stands unique."- DJ. VG/Fair (pages age toned but otherwise clean and clear, binding secure, dj has heavy wear and tears, soiling. Very rare copy with original DJ) .
Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; ; ;
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Title: Prancing Nigger
Description: New York, Brentano's, 1926. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering; white dj with red lettering and purple illustration; XI, 126 pp; purple illustrated frontispiece with guard sheet. An introduction by Carl Van Vechten. "During the summer of 1922 Ronald Firbank announced, to a startled world, that he was about to compose a study of West Indian life and manners, with which purpose in view he sailed, in August, for the Spanish Main. It was in the islands of British West India that the first sketches of Prancing Nigger came to be written and, in Bordighera, during the following winter, the book was completed. As a study of life and manners it stands unique."- DJ. VG/Fair (pages age toned but otherwise clean and clear, binding secure, dj has heavy wear and tears, soiling. Very rare copy with original DJ) .
Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; ; ;
Price: US$ 175.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 189863
- Book number: 189863
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