• Passing / by Nella Larsen.

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99125570611406421

Author:

• Larsen, Nella

Contributor:

• Cairns Collection of American Women Writers

Format:

• Book

Language:

• English

Publisher:

• New York ; London : Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.
• ©1929

Date:

• 1929

Extent:

• 10 unnumbered pages, 215 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Subject:

• Psychological fiction, American
• African American women—Fiction
• Passing (Identity)—Fiction
• Racially mixed people—Fiction
• Female friendship—Fiction
• African Americans—Race identity—Fiction
• United States—Race relations—Fiction
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Contemporary bindings (Binding)—New York (State)—New York—1929
• Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)—New York (State)—New York—1929

Description:

• Title page printed in black and brown.
• Half-title.
• "Set up, electrotyped, printed, and bound by The Vail-Ballou Press, Binghamton, N.Y. Paper made by W.C. Hamilton & Sons, Miquon, Pa."--Colophon
• Colophon on final unnumbered page.
• Binding: publisher's cloth; black; stamped in orange and silver on front cover and spine; top edge trimmed and stained orange.

Binding note:

• Princeton copy 1 Bound in publisher's original black cloth ruled in red with silver lettering. Lacking the dust jacket, though a clipped portion of the front flap is present and laid in.

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dcgt54m1104

Abstract:

• "A light-skinned negro girl successfully passes as white and marries a white man, but her attempts to seek out her own people in Harlem bring tragedy." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation

References:

• Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation, 2096

Printer:

• Vail-Ballou Press

Dedicatee:

• Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
• Marinoff, Fania

Binder:

• Vail-Ballou Press

Papermaker:

• S.D. Warren Company
• W.C. Hamilton & Sons