Weldon Laurence (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

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.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); brown paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with printed title label mounted to upper spine; xlviii,[2],3-217,[5]pp. Some offsetting to endpapers, tanning to text edges, light external wear, with sunning and wear to title label, some faint spotting to backstrip, a tiny indentation to upper rear board edge, and an old French bookseller's stamp (Librairie Classique Gibert) to lower margin of title page; Very Good and sound, lacking the uncommon dustjacket. Among the earliest significant anthologies of African American poetry, chosen and introduced by James Weldon Johnson, who would cover poets of the 19th and early 20th century, and those who would go on to be key voices in the Harlem Renaissance. Contetns include contributions by Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Corrothers, W.E.B. Du Bois, William H.A. Moore, William Stanley Braithwaite, Leslie Pinckney Hall, Ray Dandridge, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Claude McKay, Jessie Fauset, Benjamin Brawley, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and others. BLOCKSON 4906; PERRY 771. 89914.…