New York: Emerson Hall Publishers, (1972). SIGNED first edition - A play which combines music and readings as the characters reflect on their African origins and experiences from slavery to the civil rights movement. In addition to being a Tony nominated playwright, Mitchell was active in the Black theater movement of the 1960s, as well as a theatre historian. Includes an introduction by Mitchell ("A Harlem Playwright Tells of His 'Tell Pharaoh'.") on how the play came to be: originally it was to be read at a one night benefit in 1967, but the cast (which included Ruby Dee and Lou Gossett, among others) had other ideas, and so it continued to evolve - this script was printed in…
New York: Emerson Hall Publishers, (1972). SIGNED first edition - A play which combines music and readings as the characters reflect on their African origins and experiences from slavery to the civil rights movement. In addition to being a Tony nominated playwright, Mitchell was active in the Black theater movement of the 1960s, as well as a theatre historian. Includes an introduction by Mitchell ("A Harlem Playwright Tells of His 'Tell Pharaoh'.") on how the play came to be: originally it was to be read at a one night benefit in 1967, but the cast (which included Ruby Dee and Lou Gossett, among others) had other ideas, and so it continued to evolve - this script was printed in advance of the planned publication date by Prettyman, the publisher of Emerson Hall, for a benefit for the Hudson River Museum in 1972. "Mitchell reached his artistic heights as a dramatist in TELL PHARAOH, an eloquent 'theater-at-the-lectern' history of black people." (Darwin T Turner). A presentation copy INSCRIBED inside the front cover to author Clarence Major ("A great artist and great friend") and dated in 1973. Tall thin format (4 1/4 inches wide by 11 inches tall) in stapled wrappers. Unpaginated (48 pp including covers). ISBN: 0-87829-0176.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - A state-by-state listing of significant sites in African American history. Preface by Senator Edward W. Brooke. Index. xiv, 247 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket (spine label).
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - A state-by-state listing of significant sites in African American history. Index. 247 pages.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. (prev owner's name and neat 'colonial Williamsburg, Virginia' written on half title page.)
TELL PHARAOH.
