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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
by Johnson, James Weldon
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1927. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. First book, purported by him to be fictional, by this pioneering civil rights activist (1871-1938), who played a leadership role in the early days of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Orig. published anonymously by Knopf in 1917, this is the 1927 edition from Garden City (First, thus), the first under his true name, in 211 pages. Hardcover small octavo has black cloth-covered boards stamped in yellow to spine. Condition is VG+, marred only by a tad of rubbing to both boards & extremities, mild corner bumping. Else, completely clean, binding strong & straight, hinges secure, pages modestly tanned but completely unmarked save for some initials & date on last page in pen. NO DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm Pacific time; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Synopsis
James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1871. Among the first to break through the barriers segregating his race, he was educated at Atlanta University and at Columbia and was the first black admitted to the Florida bar. He was also, for a time, a songwriter in New York, American consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, executive secretary of the NAACP, and professor of creative literature at Fisk University—experiences recorded in his autobiography, Along This Way . Other books by him include Saint Peter Relates an Incident , Black Manhattan , and God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. In addition to his own writing, Johnson was the editor of pioneering anthologies of black American poetry and spirituals. He died in 1938. William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of To Tell a Free Story and editor or coeditor of more than thirty books on African American literature.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023507
- Title
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
- Author
- Johnson, James Weldon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Garden City Publishing Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- black African American memoir race racial racism prejudice men males boys true autobiographical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography-Biography-Journals-Letters; Race/Ethnic Studies-Literature / African/Black Americans;
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