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Fire!! a quarterly devoted to the younger Negro artists / premier issue edited by Wallace Thurman in association with Langston Hughes [and others].
LIBRA - Rare PS153.N5 F6 1982 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors.
- American literature.
- African American arts--Periodicals.
- African American arts.
- American literature--African American authors--20th century.
- Genre:
- Periodicals.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 48 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- Facsim. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Metuchen, NJ : Fire!! Press, 1982.
- Contents:
- Cover design : Aaron Douglas ; Illustrations : Richard Bruce and Aaron Douglas ; Cordelia the Crude, a Harlem sketch / Wallace Thurman ; Color Struck, a play in four scenes / Zora Neale Hurston.
- Flame from the Dark Tower, a section of poetry: From the Dark Tower / Counteé Cullen ; A Southern Road / Helene Johnson ; Jungle Taste / Edward Silvera ; Finality / Edward Silvera ; The Death Bed / Waring Cuney ; Elevator Boy / Langston Hughes / Railroad Avenue / Langston Hughes ; Length of Moon / Arna Bontemps ; Little Cinderella / Lewis Alexander ; Streets / Lewis Alexander.
- Wedding Day, a story / Gwendolyn Bennett ; Smoke, Lilies and Jade, a novel, part 1 / Richard Bruce ; Sweat, a story / Zora Neale Hurston ; Intelligentsia, an essay / Arthur Huff Fauset ; Fire Burns, editorial coment / Wallace Thurman.
- Lighting Fire!! / Richard Bruce Nugent (c1982) ; FIRE!! in Retrospect / Thomas H. Wirth (c1982).
- Notes:
- Vol 1, no. 1, Nov. 1926.
- Cover title: Fire!! devoted to younger Negro artists.
- Reprint. Originally published, 1926.
- "This facsimile edition ... consists of fourteen hundred copies, of which one hundred twenty have been numbered and signed by Richard Bruce Nugent" p.48.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Fire!! a quarterly devoted to the younger Negro artists.
- ISBN:
- 9780912607009
- 0912607009
- OCLC:
- 14103455
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