Cavalcade: Negro American Writing from 1760 to the Present

Davis, Arthur Paul

Published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971

About this Item

Octavo, pictorial cloth lettered in black. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed: "For my student and friend Dorothy Pryor, Arthur P. Davis, 7/10/72," on the front endpaper; with Pryor's library stamp and annotations throughout the text. Accompanied by an "`Instructor's Guide to `Cavalcade,'" for use in classrooms. The recipient, Professor Dorothy J. Pryor, an African American pioneer in the field of public education, enriched the lives of countless high school and college students in Western Massachusetts. She had attended Howard University in 1972, where Davis taught for more than forty years. A gorgeous copy of a seminal anthology with a distinguished provenance.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1468661449232

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cavalcade: Negro American Writing from 1760 to the Present
• Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Publication Date: 1971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • African American literature