Countee Cullen, Copper Sun, Harper & Brothers 1927, Good+ hardcover

Cullen, Countee, Copper Sun, New York: Harper & Brothers 1927, Good+ hardcover 8vo, 5 ¼” x 7 ¾”, 89 pp.

Black cloth spine, marbled decorated boards, paste-on title labels to front panel & spine, minor nicks to spine, minor soiling to front panel, bumping to tips, gift inscription to front free endpaper, no dust jacket. With elegant graphic decorations by Charles Cullen. Second book of poetry by the important African American writer active during the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen (1903-1946) published poetry in many national periodicals of the time and is known for other books ‘Color’ and ‘The Black Christ’ which controversially equated lynching with crucifixion.