The Poetry of the Negro 1746-1949
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1949. xviii, 429p. Publishers cloth with a crisp clean dust jacket. Early printing of this "definitive anthology" of African-American poetry from the 18th century through the mid-20th edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps. In addition to poems by the editors, Hughes and Bontemps, this anthology features work by Phillis Weatley, George Moses Horton, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Margaret Walker, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Melvin Tolson, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many others. Includes a section of "tributary Poems by Non-Negroes" such as Whitman, Melville, Wordsworth and Longfellow, and a selection of poems by Caribbean poets. early printing without "First Edition on copyright page. Book fine, dust jacket with a bit of sticker residue on front panel. light rubbing to corners, a bit soiling to rear panel otherwise a good copy. Dust jacket in archival cover. Item #10206
Price: $200.00