THE POETRY OF THE NEGRO 1746-1949
by Hughes, Langston and Arna Bontemps
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Plus/None
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86384
- Title
- THE POETRY OF THE NEGRO 1746-1949
- Author
- Hughes, Langston and Arna Bontemps
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus/None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- African-American, African-American Poetry, Afro-American Poetry, Black Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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