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Passing / by Nella Larsen.
Author
Larsen, Nella
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York ; London : Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.
©1929
Description
10 unnumbered pages, 215 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
Details
Subject(s)
Psychological fiction, American
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African American women
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Fiction
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Passing (Identity)
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Fiction
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Multiracial people
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Fiction
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Female friendship
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Fiction
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African Americans
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Race identity
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Fiction
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United States
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Race relations
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Fiction
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
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Fiction
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Publisher
Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984
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Dedicatee
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
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Marinoff, Fania
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Binder
Vail-Ballou Press
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Printer
Vail-Ballou Press
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Papermaker
S.D. Warren Company
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W.C. Hamilton & Sons
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Related name
Cairns Collection of American Women Writers
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Psychological fiction
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Rare books genre
Contemporary bindings
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Publishers' cloth bindings
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Medium/Support
8vo. rdabf
Summary note
"A light-skinned negro girl successfully passes as white and marries a white man, but her attempts to seek out her own people in Harlem bring tragedy." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
Notes
Title page printed in black and brown.
Half-title.
"Set up, electrotyped, printed, and bound by The Vail-Ballou Press, Binghamton, N.Y. Paper made by W.C. Hamilton & Sons, Miquon, Pa."--Colophon
Colophon on final unnumbered page.
Binding: publisher's cloth; black; stamped in orange and silver on front cover and spine; top edge trimmed and stained orange.
Binding note
Princeton copy 1 Bound in publisher's original black cloth ruled in red with silver lettering. Lacking the dust jacket, though a clipped portion of the front flap is present and laid in.
References
Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation, 2096
Place name(s)
United States New York (State) New York.
LCCN
29009990
OCLC
2812987
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