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9781437216073 | Kessinger Pub Co, October 31, 2008, cover price $41.95

Paperback:

9781505995626 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 27, 2015, cover price $9.99

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By Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten (introduced by) and Kevin Young (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9780385352970 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 10, 2015, cover price $26.00

Product Description: In Defence of Bad Taste IN A merica, where men are supposed to know nothing about matters of taste and where women have their dresses planned for them, the household decorator has become an important factor in domestic life. Out of an even hundred rich men how many can say that they have had anything to do with the selection or arrangement of the furnishings for their homes? In theatre programs these matters are regulated and due credit is given to the various firms who have supplied the myriad appeals to the eye; one knows who thought out the combinations of shoes, hats, and parasols, and one knows where each separate article was purchased...read more

Hardcover:

9781437892338 | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2009, cover price $95.99 | About this edition: In Defence of Bad Taste IN A merica, where men are supposed to know nothing about matters of taste and where women have their dresses planned for them, the household decorator has become an important factor in domestic life.
9780559249365 | Bibliobazaar, October 30, 2008, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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9781437892154 | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2009, cover price $89.99
9780559249358 | Bibliobazaar, October 30, 2008, cover price $31.75

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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9781104337629 | Kessinger Pub Co, April 30, 2009, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Paperback:

9781104298173 | Kessinger Pub Co, April 30, 2009, cover price $22.95

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9780548892527 | Kessinger Pub Co, February 28, 2008, cover price $33.95
9781406716429 | Lightning Source Inc, March 30, 2007, cover price $30.95

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more
By Carl Van Vechten (foreword by)

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9780548536261 | Kessinger Pub Co, September 30, 2007, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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9780548467220 | Kessinger Pub Co, September 12, 2007, cover price $27.95

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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9781432620295 | Kessinger Pub Co, October 31, 2004, cover price $51.95
9780880293273 | Reprint edition (Hippocrene Books, July 1, 1989), cover price $7.95

Paperback:

9781557099204, titled "Tiger in the House" | Reprint edition (Applewood Books, March 30, 2009), cover price $19.95
9781417967445 | Kessinger Pub Co, October 31, 2004, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9780486291291 | Dover Pubns, June 12, 1996, cover price $8.95

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9780548771693 | Kessinger Pub Co, November 30, 2007, cover price $26.95

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

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9781417967438 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2005, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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Product Description: 1928. The novel begins: Owing to the congenital diffidence of Ambrose Deacon, the unforeseen success of The Stafford Will Case merely embarrassed him. Before the production of this drama, to be sure, he had enjoyed a modest position in the world of letters...read more

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9781417902699 | Kessinger Pub Co, April 30, 2005, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: 1928.

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Product Description: 1923. With a decoration by Robert E. Locher. Van Vechten was one of the first to understand the importance of the Harlem Renaissance movement and became interested in promoting black artists and writers. He was an avid collector of ephemera and books pertaining to black arts and letters and a frequent visitor to Harlem...read more

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9781417938193 | Kessinger Pub Co, July 31, 2004, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: 1923.

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An engaging portrait of two key figures of the Harlem Renaissance presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between gifted African-American poet Langston Hughes and his white mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues, a study of American culture, and portraits of W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and other important figures. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780679451136 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 2001, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between poet Langston Hughes and his mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues.

Hardcover:

9780722251492 | Best Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $98.00
9780722263068 | Best Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $88.00

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Product Description: Here upper-class elites discuss art in well-appointed drawing rooms; rowdy and lascivious drunks spend long nights in jazz clubs and speakeasies; and politically conscious young intellectuals drink coffee and debate "the race problem" in walkup apartments...read more

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9780374980696 | Octagon Books, October 1, 1973, cover price $20.50 | About this edition: As she makes her way up in white society, a light-skinned mulatto is haunted by her Black heritage

Paperback:

9780252068607 | 1 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, December 30, 1999), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Here upper-class elites discuss art in well-appointed drawing rooms; rowdy and lascivious drunks spend long nights in jazz clubs and speakeasies; and politically conscious young intellectuals drink coffee and debate "the race problem" in walkup apartments.

By Covarrubias (illustrator), Thadious M. Davis (introduced by), Muriel Draper (introduced by), Taylor Gordon and Carl Van Vechten (introduced by)

Paperback:

9780803270527 | Bison Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $11.00

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Celebrating African-American achievement in the twentieth century, this collection of photographs profiles such famous figures as W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Bessie Smith.

Hardcover:

9780820315584 | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century features portraits of such famous figures as W.

Book by Van Vechten, Carl

Hardcover:

9780836957587 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1970, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Book by Van Vechten, Carl

Paperback:

9781557130297 | Reprint edition (Sun & Moon Pr, April 1, 1993), cover price $13.95

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Product Description: Book by Davis, Keith F.
By Keith F. Davis, Hallmark Cards, Inc. (corporate author) and Carl Van Vechten (photographer)

Paperback:

9780875296692 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, January 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Book by Davis, Keith F.

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