Description
New York: Simon and Schuster. 1955. Small 8vo in stiff photoillustrated wrappers. 98 pages with numerous b/w illustrations in gravure. Edgewear, mainly spine
First printing (stated) in wrappers – the book was published simultanously in hardcover and in wrapper). Included in Roth 101 Books, The Open Book and Parr & Badger: “one of the most successful collaborations between a great writer and a great photographer ever published” (Roth). The first African American to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, in 1952, De Carava (1919-2009) used the grant to create a photo portrait of his native Harlem from which the photographs for this book were selected
