THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY: With an Essay on the NEGRO'S CREATIVE GENIUS
by JOHNSON, James Weldon
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, ( 1922 ). Early printing. Hardcover. Good. Octavo; xlviii, 217 pages, clothbacked boards, shelfworn; inked name and another bookplate. Ex libris M. S. Carothers. (Probably Rev. Milton S. Carothers, the long-time campus minister at Florida State University).
"The public, generally speaking, does not knw that there are American Negro poets - to supply this lack of information is, alone, a work worthy of somebody's efforts. ... nothing will do more to ... raise his stutus than a demonstration of intellectual parity by the Negro through the production of literature and art." - Preface.
"The public, generally speaking, does not knw that there are American Negro poets - to supply this lack of information is, alone, a work worthy of somebody's efforts. ... nothing will do more to ... raise his stutus than a demonstration of intellectual parity by the Negro through the production of literature and art." - Preface.
Synopsis
A landmark anthology of forty poets that brought serious attention to writers such as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. The poetry, the prefaces, and Johnson’s critical notes have made this book a classic. Indices.
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- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
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- Title
- THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY
- Author
- JOHNSON, James Weldon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early printing
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ( 1922 )
- Keywords
- black studies, negro poetry, african american poetry, james weldon johnson, genius
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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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