Ragland Farley (5 results)

Stapled wraps. Condition: Good. Reprint. Bottom rear corner at the spine missing paper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 47 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 4to, unpaginated stapled booklet. Some light wear and small chip to wraps. Poems by a Black Howard University School of Pharmacy graduate. This booklet pulls13 poems from his series of "Muses in Black" collections, mostly biographically oriented, featuring subjects like Martin Luther King Jr, Sammy Davis Jr, Mahalia Jackson, and more. OCLC locates 8 holdings of this booklet.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Dr. Arthur Paul Davis. Octavo. 110pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Spine and both covers have few spots of lightening to cloth color, lightly bumped at tip of two corners, a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Green patterned paper over boards with black titles. The spine, rather than lying flat, has a crease that makes it come to a poiny. I suspect that this is a printing flaw by a small town press.There is some toning on the spine and edges. Inside the endpapers have been replaced where they were partially (mostly) torn away and the hinges strengthened. There is on ly very light wear otherwise. The book is in the VG- to VG range. Nice copy of a rather hard to find book by this relatively obscure black writer. Ragland was a songwriter - poet, who published widely in newspapers and magazines. He wrote several books. One of his songs became the Alma Mater of the Hampton Institute. Essays indicate that he wrote on equal rights but more in the spirit of Booker T. Washingto than W. E. DuBois. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 90 pages.…

Wrap. Condition: Good. 1st Edition, The Quality Printing, Richmond, VA 1953, Wrap, Good condition,some cracks.