Carbon Copies

New York/London: D. Appleton and Company. Very Good in Good dj. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. [a good some copy with some shelfwear to the bottom edge (slight exposure of boards at the lower tips), minor soiling to the page edges; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with a few short closed tears and some creasing and light soiling, and some shallow paper loss at the top of the spine]. (cartoon illustrations) Humorous short stories in a racist vein, about "the real world of the colored folk." This sort of racial/ethnic fare was one of the two primary stocks-in-trade (the other being mystery/detective fiction) of this South Carolina-born white author, lauded in the dust jacket blurb as "without question the foremost writer of negro stories living today" -- or, even more cringeworthily, "refreshing stories [about] the trial, tribulations, problems and adventures of those human and amazing negroes -- among them the famous Florian Slappey and Epic Peters -- who are Mr. Cohen's unique creations and for which he is known wherever American magazines and books are read." (Think Amos 'n' Andy, in print.) A number of his stories were adapted as silent film comedies. .