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NATIVE SONS, a Critical Study of Twentieth Century Negro American Authors.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes authors from W. E. B. DuBois and William Attaway through Jean Toomer and Claude McKay to Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones, as well as Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and William Demby. More than just an evaluation of these writers it is a look at some of the factors that shaped their writing - life in the South, migration, existence in the urban ghetto, interracial love, the Negro church, the historical perspective, the new nationalism, the Negro author as expatriate and more. Bibliography and index. 210 pp
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket (prev owner's name, a few scattered marginal notations.)
Book ID: 88756More details Price: $28.50 -
NATIVE SONS, a Critical Study of Twentieth Century Negro American Authors.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes authors from W. E. B. DuBois and William Attaway through Jean Toomer and Claude McKay to Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones, as well as Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and William Demby. More than just an evaluation of these writers it is a look at some of the factors that shaped their writing - life in the South, migration, existence in the urban ghetto, interracial love, the Negro church, the historical perspective, the new nationalism, the Negro author as expatriate and more. SIGNED on the half title page. Bibliography and index. 210 pp
Condition: Good overall in a near fine dustjacket (a tight copy, but highlighting and marginal brackets on several pages)
Book ID: 88757More details Price: $35.00 -
FAMOUS AMERICAN NEGRO POETS.
Edition: Fourth printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, (1965.) dj. Hardcover - Illustrated with photographs and designed to appeal to young people, this book contains short biographies and poetic samples of 12 African American writers, including Arna Bontemps, Francis E. W. Harper, Gwendolyn Brooks, Dunbar and Hughes. In addition to being a writer herself, Rollins was a pioneering librarian - as the head librarian of the children's department of the Chicago Public Library, she used this position to fight to remove books with negative racist stereotypes and to replace them with books that highlighted contributions by African Americans. Her biography of Langston Hughes received the Coretta Scott King book award. A title in the Famous Biographies for Young People series. Bibliography, index. 95 pp.
Condition: Fine in blue cloth in a near fine dust jacket (hint of sunning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 56170More details Price: $21.00