Research Catalog

Title

God sends Sunday / by Arna Bontemps.

Author

Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973

Publication

• New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.
• Rahway, N.J. : Printed by Quinn & Boden Company, Inc., 1931.
• ©1931

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Harcourt Brace & Company, publisher, donor.
• Quinn & Boden Company, printer.
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

199 pages; 20 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subjects

• United States
• Sexual relationships
• Love triangles
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Psychological fiction
• Fiction
• Horse racing > Fiction
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction
• Self-destructive behavior > Fiction
• African American jockeys > Fiction
• Black author

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• Psychological fiction.
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

• Typography by Robert S. Josephy.

Indexed In (note)

• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Source (note)

• Harcourt, Brace and Company;

Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-B (Bontemps, A. God sends Sunday)

ISBN

• 0404001378
• 9780404001377

LCCN

31006793

OCLC

788726

Author

Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973, author.

Title

God sends Sunday / by Arna Bontemps.

Publisher

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.

Manufacturer

Rahway, N.J. : Printed by Quinn & Boden Company, Inc., 1931.

Copyright Date

©1931

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Additional Formats

Also issued online.

Indexed In:

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 1, page 953, column 3, row 1 & 2

Local Note

The Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has two copies of this book. Copy 1 (accession no. G24034) is a gift presented by the publisher: "Harcourt, Brace and Company"; probably added to the Schomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian. It includes the autograph of the author in black ink on page [2] of the cover: "Arna Bontemps, New York, N.Y., April 18, 1931," NYPL's bookplate of Reference Collection of Negro Literature pasted on the recto of the first preliminary leaf, as well as various stamps like: "Division of Negro Literature and History;" Property of the City of New York;" and "The New York Public Library: Circulation Department, 135 Street Branch, 103 West 135th St." which indicate, this item was originally part of the 135 Street Branch's Circulation Department. It also features early processing marking of the original collection and NYPL's perforated stamp or seal. Imperfect: treated, deacidified, bound in full publisher's light brown cloth with black gilt illustration, no title on the front board, and black gilt lettering to the spine.

Copy 2 (accession no. D236155) is one of the items acquired or added to the Shomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator. The book also features two NYPL bookplates of: "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," one on the cover page and the other on page one, as well as NYPL's perforated stamp and early processing marking of the original collection. Copy 2 is also bound in full publisher's light brown cloth with black gilt illustration, no title on the front board, and black gilt lettering to the spine, and has parts of the original dust jacket pasted on the recto of an end leaflet and page three of the cover. The book also contains an inscription in ink from the author on the first leaflet, which reads, "To Ruby and Owen, first and foremost, this first copy, Anna; 'I hope you will be able to put up with Little Augie. He was rowdy, and he [file] / [fell] into bad days. He needs your sympathy.'"

Source

Copy 1 in Sc Rare Fic-B (Bontemps, A. God sends Sunday) Gift; Harcourt, Brace and Company; G24034. NN

Copy 2 in Sc Rare Fic-B (Bontemps, A. God sends Sunday) D236155. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

Harcourt Brace & Company, publisher, donor.

Quinn & Boden Company, printer.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948 collection librarian.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, curator.

Other Form:

Online version: Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973. God sends Sunday. New York, Harcourt, Brace and company [©1931] (OCoLC)560302580

Research Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-B (Bontemps, A. God sends Sunday)