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A Long Way from Home.
MCKAY, Claude.

New York: Lee Furman, 1937. 8vo, original dark green cloth, backstrip lettered in orange, in pictorial dust-jacket. [ix], 354 pp. Dust-jacket well worn along edges, with backstrip chipped at ends and adhesion damage to front panel; some damp marks on front cover; but a sturdy copy of a hefty volume issued in an absurdly flimsy dust-jacket. First Edition, Second Issue Binding. (The first issue was in reddish cloth with printed labels.) The memoirs of the Jamaican-born poet, novelist, journalist, and political radical (1890-1948), telling of his travels and experiences in England, the Soviet Union, and elsewhere. The Oxford Companion to African American Literature thus sums up McKay's career: "McKay's exploration of the relationship between art and politics, as conveyed in his complex and wide-ranging writings, establishes him as an important pioneer in African American and African Caribbean intellectual, cultural, and literary history." (Item ID: 6099)

$100.00