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Published by Jerome H. Remick & Co, New York, 1914
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Folio. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Some toning and rubbing to the exterior, else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate impression "If The Sands etc. 4." Will Marion Cook was an African American composer who studied under Antonín Dvo?ák and is celebrated for his landmark musical, *In Dahomey*, which according to historian Gerald Bordman, was "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house." James Weldon Johnson was an African American writer who eventually moved on from show business to become a leader of the NAACP and served as U.S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua under President Theodore Roosevelt.
Published by Jerome H. Remick & Co, 1914
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Trade Paperback. First Edition. 6 pages. The multi-talented Johnson was an early black leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),in which organization he served as executive secretary from 1920 to 1930. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novel, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture. In his spare time, he wrote songs like this one, in partnership with Will Marion Cook, one of the leading African American composers of his day. He wrote the lyrics for 'Lift Every Voice and Sing', which later became known as the Negro National Anthem. Two copies, both very good or better. One, with a list of salon and concert songs numbered 7823 on the final page, and the other with an ad for All Aboard for Dixie Land on the back cover, with the ID number 9609. The former is probably the first issue. Uncommon. Housed in a custom cloth case. [JSP01].