FIRE!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists (Signed Limited ed.)

A18633. NUGENT, RICHARD BRUCE and WALLACE THURMAN, ed. FIRE!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists (Signed Limited ed.). A 1982 beautiful facsimile reprint of Vol. 1, no. 1, the inaugural and only issue of this famous African American literary / arts journal of the Harlem Renaissance, first published in November 1926, impossible to find in the original. Edited by Wallace Thurman, in association with Nugent, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Bennett, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, and John Davis. Nugent contributed two drawings and the story Smoke, Lilies and Jade under the pseudonym Richard Bruce. Additional contributors include Countee Cullen, Waring Cuney, and Arna Bontemps. 4to, wraps, in papered, lettered box. No. 60 of the limited signed ed. of 120. Original letter of authenticity from publisher laid in. 1982. Mint, in mint box.
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