The artist isn't black, but his subjects are, in "Hirschfeld's Harlem" (Glenn Young-Applause, $75).

The artist isn't black, but his subjects are, in "Hirschfeld's Harlem" (Glenn Young-Applause, $75).
The distinctive caricatures of Al Hirschfeld, who died last year at 99, were featured in The New York Times for 75 years and have appeared on 15 U.S. postage stamps.
This expanded edition of the 1941 book "Harlem as Seen by Hirschfeld" features 30 color plates and 90 black-and-white drawings printed on heavy stock. Accompanying the art is commentary by Ossie Davis. Ruby Dee, Whoopi Goldberg, Bobby Short, Lena Horne, Charles B. Rangel, Geoffrey Holder and others.
The "Harlem Portfolio" includes colorful characters and street scenes depicting life in New York's uptown: the broadly grinning "Numbers King," complete with gold tooth; a couple and their baby out for a "Lenox Avenue Stroll"; the "Sugar Hill Statesman," hat in one hand and an American flag in the other, speaking to a small but attentive audience; and four musicians having a "Jam Session."
The "Gallery of African American Legends" includes Hirschfeld's renditions of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, a scene from "Porgy and Bess," James Earl Jones as Paul Robeson, Bill Cosby and the cast of "The Cosby Show," and portraits of Scott Joplin, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Nell Carter, Eubie Blake, Sammy Davis Jr. and Ethel Waters, among others.