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  • NATIVE SONS, a Critical Study of Twentieth Century Negro American Authors. by Margolies, Edward.
    Margolies, Edward.
    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: 88756
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  • NATIVE SONS, a Critical Study of Twentieth Century Negro American Authors. by Margolies, Edward.
    Margolies, Edward.
    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: 88757
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  • MAKING IT. by Podhoretz, Norman.
    Podhoretz, Norman.
    MAKING IT.

    Edition: Hardcover.

    New York: Random House, (1967) dj. Hardcover - A controversial memoir about American intellectual life and academia and the relationship between politics, money, and education. "Podhoretz, the son of Jewish immigrants, grew up in the tough Brownsville section of Brooklyn, attended Columbia University on a scholarship, and later received degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Cambridge University. Making It is his blistering account of fighting his way out of Brooklyn and into, then out of, the Ivory Tower, of his military service, and finally of his induction into the ranks of what he calls 'the family,' the small group of left-wing and largely Jewish critics and writers whose opinions came to dominate and increasingly politicize the American literary…

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    New York: Random House, (1967) dj. Hardcover - A controversial memoir about American intellectual life and academia and the relationship between politics, money, and education. "Podhoretz, the son of Jewish immigrants, grew up in the tough Brownsville section of Brooklyn, attended Columbia University on a scholarship, and later received degrees from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Cambridge University. Making It is his blistering account of fighting his way out of Brooklyn and into, then out of, the Ivory Tower, of his military service, and finally of his induction into the ranks of what he calls 'the family,' the small group of left-wing and largely Jewish critics and writers whose opinions came to dominate and increasingly politicize the American literary scene in the fifties and sixties. It is a closely observed and in many ways still-pertinent analysis of the tense and more than a little duplicitous relationship that exists in America between intellect and imagination, money, social status, and power. The family responded to the book with outrage, and Podhoretz soon turned no less angrily on them, becoming a fierce neoconservative." (NY Review of Books)" More than fifty years after its publication, this controversial and legendary book remains a riveting autobiography, and as a fascinating and essential document of mid-century American cultural life. Index. 368 pp.

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    Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket. (prev owner's name, some fading to edges of boards, several short tears and small chips to edges of dj, especially at the ends of the spine - but a tight, straight copy with the original price of 6.95 on the dj flap)

    Book ID: 85239
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  • Williams, Sherley Anne (1944-1999)
    GIVE BIRTH TO BRIGHTNESS, a Thematic Study in Neo-Black Literature

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (long galley trade paperback )

    New York: Dial Press, 1972. First edition - African American poet and novelist's first book - a study of Black writers in America, focusing on James Baldwin, LeRoi Jones and Ernest Gaines. An uncommon title in any format, but scarce in this, the earliest printed version. Williams was the daughter of migrant African American farm workers and she picked cotton in California's central valley as a child, a single parent, who became not only an honored professor but one of the first to teach the study of African American literature, a poet, playwright, a Caldecott winning children's writer and an author whose only published novel was nominated for the Pulitzer, all in a too brief life cut short by…

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    New York: Dial Press, 1972. First edition - African American poet and novelist's first book - a study of Black writers in America, focusing on James Baldwin, LeRoi Jones and Ernest Gaines. An uncommon title in any format, but scarce in this, the earliest printed version. Williams was the daughter of migrant African American farm workers and she picked cotton in California's central valley as a child, a single parent, who became not only an honored professor but one of the first to teach the study of African American literature, a poet, playwright, a Caldecott winning children's writer and an author whose only published novel was nominated for the Pulitzer, all in a too brief life cut short by cancer. 11 1/4 inches tall by 4 3/4 inches wide. Footnotes. Bibliography. 159 hand-numbered pages. Publisher's note laid in.

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    Condition: Very good in yellow printed wrappers (minor wear to covers, some penciled brackets and underlining, and a note on front cover stating "please do not review until.."

    Book ID: 90885
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