Softcover
1982 · Metuchen, New Jersey
by THURMAN, Wallace
Metuchen, New Jersey: The Fire!! Press, 1982. Softcover. Fine. Facsimile reprint. One of 1400 copies. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Fine. Reproduction of the first, and only, issue of this landmark periodical. Begun by Wallace Thurman, it includes material by some of the most talented African-American writers of the day: Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, Langston Hughes, and Bruce Nugent. Includes a four page insert with reminiscences by Richard Bruce Nugent, the last surviving participant in the creation of *Fire!!* and by Thomas H. Wirth who produced this reproduction. (Inventory #: 599636)