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Garden City: Doubleday, ( 1949 ). Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo; xviii, 429 pages, green cloth, inked name on endpaper "The common thread, of course, is the Negro's experience in the Western world. ... Poems by others are included only when they touch the subject directly, except in the case of the Caribbean countries, where a departure from this principle seemed necessary in a few areas in order to make representative selections." - Preface.
The Poetry of the Negro 1746-1949 by HUGHES, Langston & Bontemps, Arna [Editors] - 1949
by HUGHES, Langston & Bontemps, Arna [Editors]
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The Poetry of the Negro 1746-1949
by HUGHES, Langston & Bontemps, Arna [Editors]
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Garden City,NY:: Doubleday,, 1949. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. The book is in very good shape with only trifle dust soiling at edges. Nice ownership signature of publisher E.V. Griffith dated 1949. In dust jacket that is lightly sunned, wear at edges and with one minute puncture near head of spine. Withal, an acceptable copy of this classic work. Includes works by: James Weldon Johnson, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Melvin Tolson, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as Hughes and Bontemps, a section on Caribbean poets that includes Claude McKay, Nicolás Guillén, and Aimé Césaire + works by Elizabteth Bishop, Kenneth Patchen, Josephine Miles, Muriel Rukeyser, Karl Shapiro, Frank A. Collymore + many others.
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- Date Published 1949
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- Keywords POETRY ANTHOLOGY
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THE POETRY OF THE NEGRO 1746-1949: An Anthology
by HUGHES, Langston and Arna BONTEMPS
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THE POETRY OF THE NEGRO 1746-1949
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New York: Doubleday and Company, 1949. Hardcover. Good Plus/None. Octavo. Greyish-green cloth-covered board, ruled in red, with silver lettering. Some light spotting/staining to boards, and two, small, black magic-marker crossouts to title page and verso. A good solid reading copy of this important, fairly early anthology. Includes poems on "the Negro's experience in the Western world, Negro countries around the Caribbean...selections of representative poems without respect either to racial implications in the verses or to the identify of the poets. Interestingly, the editors included a section entitled: "Tributary Poems by Non-Negroes"
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