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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Countee Cullen (1903 - 1946) was an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance. After graduating from New York University, Cullen entered Harvard for graduate studies in English and published Color, his first collection of poems that later became a landmark of the Harlem Renaissance. Quarter yellow cloth over patterned paper-backed covers. Pasted onto the ffe is a clipping, apparently from a Harvard publication, of notice of two Harvard men receiving poetry awards, noting that "Countee P. Collen,... a negro, was awarded the Reed Memorial Poetry Prize. 'Color', a volume of Poems by Cullen, was recently published by Harper & Brothers" Spine lighly soiled, corners worn, solid binding. No names, inscriptions or bookplates.