Passing / by Nella Larsen.

Author
Larsen, Nella [Browse]
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

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Subject(s)
Publisher
Dedicatee
Binder
Printer
Papermaker
Library of Congress genre(s)
Rare books genre
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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