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New York: Lee Furman, Inc, 1937. First Edition. A Jamaica-born poet and fiction writers concentrates on his life during the 1920s and 1930s, when he was active in the Harlem Renaissance and traveled in Africa, Europe, and the USSR" (Bringano, Black Americans in Autobiography 241). The book touches on his early life in Jamaica, his publications, his feud with Alain Locke, and the differences he had with his native-born African-American contemporaries. Perry (The Harlem Renaissance: An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary) 380; Blockson 5753. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); first binding (per Ahearn) in rust-colored linen, with pictorial title labels mounted to spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; [xii],[2],3-354,[2]pp. Hint of foxing to endpapers and right edge of textblock, light wear and a faint vertical crease to spine label, else Near Fine. In the dustjacket designed by Aaron Douglas; unclipped (priced $3.00), lightly shelfworn and a bit dust-soiled, with several…