To Make a Poet Black
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. Item #023234
142pp. The author brings together factual material and critical opinion on Negro literature in a history of Negro thought in America. This is a field of American literature he said should not be ignored. He points out the dilemma of the Negro author whose art is dominated by the necessity of pleasing two audiences, the black and the white. Bound in rust cloth, spine lettering silver, light crease to upper corners of first three pages, and a small crease to foredge of one page. A very good copy in unclipped dust jacket lettered in brown, light chipping along bottom and upper edges of front panel.
Price: $125.00