New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book by this poet of the Harlem Rennaisance, a single long poem in which he uses the form of the medieval ballad to retell a legend about an English lord who must choose between a Black bride and a white one (although the original legend was simply women with different colored hair). In a letter quoted by his biographer, Charles Molesworth, the author described the poem as "quite a gruesome affair with no less than three murders in it. It is founded on an old song which every colored Kentuckian knows." In 1925, as an undergraduate, he won the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize and this book is dedicated to Witter Bynner. Illustrated by Charles Cullen with a double page spread in the center of the book, and decorative borders throughout. Bound in yellow boards, with a black cloth spine with paper label over yellow boards. In the original textured spider web glassine dust jacket. 11 numbered pp.