BLACK MAN'S VERSE.

Chicago, IL: Black Cat Press, 1935. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. Signed by Publisher. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 83 pages of text. Original black hardcover binding with silver lettering on spine and silver stamped decoration on the front cover. The spine lettering is slightly faded. Binding protected in custom-fitted archival Mylar. Title page illustrated in blue and black. Signed by the founder of the Black Cat Press and typographer, Norman W. Forgue (1904-1983) and inscribed by him to a Art Institute of Chicago educated WPA artist from Skokie, IL. A few very minor thumbing-through creases to several page margins; the text is clean and unmarked. From the colophon: This volume was designed by Norman W. Forgue and printed by W.F. Breede on Arak Ash White paper direct from Linotype Bodoni Bold set by Rutherford B. Udell. The cover decoration is the work of Calvin Brazelton and the title page decoration by Karl Warren. Bound by Brock & Rankin. Typography by N.W.F. First edition.. (Inventory #: 020066)