Cullen Countee Editor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Book Appearances of Black Magdalens and "Simon the Cyrenian Speaks." Includes an original introduction by Zona Gale, as well as a contribution by her. The Cullen anthologization was the first for him and a recognition of his importance as an American poet. A clean, tight copy, unmarked but for a short, neat inscription to the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is #32 of the publisher's American Poets Project. The content also has a few b/w illustrations, notes, and index. Scans e-mailed upon request.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Printing of this edition, a review copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xx, 236pp. Mild sunning to board edges, spine slightly skewed, else Near Fine in a spine-sunned, Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $7.95), with light shelfwear and rubbing to spine ends. Reissue of the author's fifth book, first published in 1927. Includes a foreword by Cullen, and contributions by Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Joseph S. Cotter, Sr., Angelina Grimke, William Stanley Braithwaite, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay, Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, and Waring Cuney, et al.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 237 pages in good condition; edges yellowed, some pages stained. The two front endpapers are pasted together. Previous owners' names on the reverse of the ffep. Front hinge loose; binding intact. Black hardcovers with black titles on a beige label. Small chip near the tail of the spine. Corners bumped, covers stained. FAIR. Book.

Hardcover. 300p., prefaces, appendix, reading suggestions, indexes, very good later printing [h.8.43] of the new revised edition, hardcover bound in brown cloth boards and gilt, unclipped but heavily toned and stained dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1974 edition, originally published in 1927. Fine in price-clipped else fine dust jacket. A nice copy of an important anthology that had long been out of print. This copy warmly Inscribed by Cullen's widow (and second wife): "So nice to be able to spend a few days with you - My new found friends /Elise and John Hope - your kindness to me shall always be cherished - Sincerely Ida M. Cullen. Nov. 12, 1980." Countee Cullen had died in 1946. The contributors represent a who's-who of early 20th Century African-American poets including: Cullen, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Angelina Grimke, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Sterling Brown, W.E.B. DuBois, Arna Bontemps, Cuning Waring, and many more. A nice copy with a pleasing inscription.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing. xxii, [ii], 237, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black glazed cloth with pink and black paper labels on the spine and upper board; red topstain and patterned endpapers. Very Good with light foxing to paper labels, modest edge wear and small spot of wear to upper board. Former owner's bookplate and name dated 1937 at front free endpaper; some underlining and tick marks, isolated mostly to early pages, in pencil and ink. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine, light chipping to crown with a few closed tears to edges; writing in pencil at the top edge of the rear flap.A landmark anthology that defined the Harlem Renaissance and elevated poets like Langston Hughes and Georgia Douglas Johnson to a serious literary status. An uncommonly nice copy with contributions by W. E. B. DuBois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Arna Bontemps and the man himself, Countee Cullen. Schomburg p. 11, Perry 762, Porter p. 27.

First Edition. First edition, first printing. viii, 856 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in red, no headcap and edges unstained, issued without a dust jacket. Very Good+ with rubbing to cloth along edges, worn at head and tail, small bookplate to front free endpaper, a few spots of foxing to edges, vertical creases and two tiny tape mends to title page.An ambitious compilation all aspects of history and culture of the African in Africa, or the diaspora featuring contributions from an impressive array of leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Arthur A. Schomberg, W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter White, Countee Cullen and many others. A definitive work on the growth and development of Black culture of the early 20th century. One-thousand copies were originally printed, though many remained unsold and were destroyed when the warehouse they were stored in was bombed during the Blitz.