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POETRY OF THE NEGRO 1746-1949 by Hughes, Langston and Bontemps, Arna - 1951

by Hughes, Langston and Bontemps, Arna

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POETRY OF THE NEGRO 1746-1949

by Hughes, Langston and Bontemps, Arna

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Doubleday, 1951. Reading copy. 400+ pages. Binding firm, text clean.. Hard Cover. Reading Copy/No Jacket. Ex-Library.
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  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Reading Copy
  • Jacket Condition No Jacket
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Doubleday
  • Date Published 1951
  • Keywords African Americans, Black Americans, Harlem Renaissance

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THE POETRY OF THE NEGRO 1746-1949: An Anthology

by HUGHES, Langston and Arna BONTEMPS

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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.
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THE POETRY OF THE NEGRO 1746-1949

by Hughes, Langston and Arna Bontemps

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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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