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Publicado por Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1931
Librería: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. xii, 388pp. Blue cloth blind-stamped title on front board and gilt-stamped spine title. Ex-library copy, with rubberstamp and ink markings on front pastedown and front flyleaf; label residue and ink location numbers on lower spine and glue residue on rear pastedown; former owner's ink name on front flyleaf. Binding is worn on spine, covers have light soiling, one page over-opened (with early mend), else a good copy. An early, important anthology devoted entirely to African-American literature, for use in the classroom, edited by African-American scholars. An anthology of poetry, stories, one-act plays, essays and public addresses by African-American authors, including numerous contributions by African-American women (and edited, in part, by two African-American women). Contains poetry by twenty-five African-American poets, beginning with Phillis Wheatley, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes, and including poems by various contemporary poets, known (Claude McKay, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Arna Bontemps, Jessie Fauset, Sterling Brown et al), and obscure (Otto Leland Bohanan, Clarissa Scott Delany, Esther Popel, Helene Johnson, Ethel Caution et al). Also publishes short stories by Zora Neale Hurston (early appearance in her career), Charles W. Chesnutt, Rudolph Fisher, John F. Matheus, Florence Marion Harmon, and Caroline Bond Day, one-act plays by Willis Richardson and John F. Matheus, essays by Jessie Fauset, William Pickens, Sterling A. Brown, Clarissa Scott Delany et al, and public addresses by Carter G. Woodson, W. S. Scarborough, and more. A comprehensive anthology of African-American literature, prepared "to offer for classroom study or supplementary reading a selection of types of writings by Negro authors," compiled by African-American educators from Fisk (Lorenzo Dow Turner), Miner Teachers College (Otelia Cromwell) and Howard University (Eva B. Dykes). The anthology includes scholarly introductions, "general reading" notes for classroom study, and concludes with a detailed "Bibliography of Negro Literature.".