Edmonds Randolph (3 results)

Hardcover. Octavo, xii, 267 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is brown with black print. Boards in brown cloth with black print. Light wear to spine caps, small blemish to front fore edge. Text block has spotting to edges and endpapers. 1369293. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 171pp. Green cloth stamped in gold. Owner's early drama-themed bookplate on front pastedown, a very near fine copy lacking the dust jacket. Randolph Edmonds is also the author of *The Land of Cotton and Other Plays* and *Six Plays for the Negro Theatre*. Scarce. French, *Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975*.

Condition: Very Good. November 1938 issue of The Crisis, the official publication of the NAACP. 27 pp, illustrated in black and white. Staple bound in publisher's printed wraps. Very Good with light soiling and wear to wraps, "R. B." written in pencil on the top edge of front cover alongside a small chip, faint vertical crease fold throughout. Uncommon.W.E.B. Du Bois founded The Crisis in 1910. The stated purpose of the landmark publication was to "set forth those facts and arguments which show the danger of race prejudice, particularly as manifested today toward colored people." Roy Wilkins notably took over as editor in 1934 until 1949, transforming the periodical into a major platform for Civil Rights. Wilmeth Sidat-Singh, the first African American student-athlete at Syracuse University, graces the front cover. This issue includes articles by Edna Quinn, Edward E. Redcay and Edna Burke writing on getting jobs in Oklahoma.