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1940 · 140939200 — Washington D.C.: The Associates in Negro Folk Education Inc 1940. First Edition. Very Good. First edition cloth issue. 224 pp. with many b/w illustrations color frontis. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good sans jacket with light wear to cloth and soiling to edges foxing and offsetting to endpapers later gift inscription on front free endpaper underneath Locke's inscription horizontal crease to frontispiece that may be a production error. Signed by editor Alain Locke on front free endpaper inscribed to professor of philosophy Max Otto and his wife "in remembrance of happy Madison Wisconsin days. signed with an underscore Alain Locke May 27 1946." A nice association between two prominent American intellectuals. As an outspoken critic of religious dogma and a friend of progressive Wisconsin politician Robert LaFollette Otto weathered decades of opprobrium while teaching in Wisconsin. A gay African American philosopher educator and writer Locke is most often remembered as the "Dean" of the Harlem Renaissance; his writing on the movement in 1925 including the seminal anthology The New Negro effectively launched it. He was also the first African American Rhodes scholar. This influential anthology introduced many Black modern artists and subjects at a time when few critics were aware of them. An uncommon signed major work of Locke's. The Associates in Negro Folk Education Inc unknown books