Mckay, Claude. Harlem Shadows. 8vo, cloth-backed boards with printed spine label; tips lightly bumped; label unusually clear for this title lacks front free endpaper. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922 E250-350 First Edition of the poet's first book

Mckay, Claude. Harlem Shadows. 8vo, cloth-backed boards with printed spine label; tips lightly bumped; label unusually clear for this title lacks front free endpaper. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922 E250-350 First Edition of the poet's first book printed in America. It is considered to be McKay's best book of verse, containing all of the poem printed in Spying in New Hampshire. Walter White, in his review, said.. "Mr. Mckay is not a great Negro poet-He is a great poet. '