NMLP P-038433 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Harlem Shadows

Claude McKay · Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York · 1922

Octavo, xxii, 95 pp.; contains McKay's "Author's Word" and an introduction by Max Eastman; over 50 poems collected in book form for the first time, including "If We Must Die," "The Harlem Dancer," "The Lynching," and "The White City." BINDING VARIANTS, NO PRIORITY ESTABLISHED: copies are recorded (a) in half navy/blue cloth spine over grey marbled paper-covered boards with a printed paper label to the spine, and (b) in crimson-brown cloth with a printed paper spine label

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-038433 for "Harlem Shadows" by Claude McKay (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038433, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).