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Advertisement for rare ‘Voice of Negro’ literary magazine

Estimate
US$100 - US$150
Price realised:
US$72
Auction archive: Lot number 280

Advertisement for rare ‘Voice of Negro’ literary magazine

Estimate
US$100 - US$150
Price realised:
US$72
Beschreibung:

Title: Advertisement for rare ‘Voice of Negro’ literary magazine Author: Place: Nashville, Tenn Publisher: A.M.E.Church of Sunday School Union Date: 1905 Description: Advertisement for “The Voice of the Negro / the Only Illustrated Monthly Magazine ever Published by Colored People in the South, and the Best Negro Magazine in the World”. 1 pg. on rear cover of Scholars Quarterly for Intermediate Classes, Third Quarter 1905 (Publishing House of the A.M.E.Church of Sunday School Union, Nashville, Tenn., 1905) Full issue of 32pp. in original wrappers. 5 x 7.5”, printed on flimsy brownish paper. The ad touts the “remarkable growth (20,000 subscribers in a single year)” of the new magazine, which has “waded into the conflict to fight for fair play for the great Negro race and to counteract the influence in the North of the morbid literature of the Thomas Dixon mould” (i.e., Dixon’s Ku Klux Klan novel, published that year). With two unidentified inset photos, possibly of editors J. Max Barber and J.W.E.Bowen and laudatory comments from readers in Washington, D.C., Georgia and Mississippi. The ground-breaking national African-American literary journal launched in 1904 in Atlanta, featured writings both by Booker T. Washington and younger Black intellectuals like W.E.B. Dubois, Kelly Miller and Mary Church Terrell, and the poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar and James Corrothers. It ceased publication in 1907. Despite claim of vast readership, the original imprints are now extremely rare. No copy of any of the issues appears in the Blockson Collection, and both the Danky-Hady bibliography and WorldCat locates only microfilm holdings. Thus even this ad becomes an historical collectible. Lot Amendments Condition: Very Good Item number: 248045

Auction archive: Lot number 280
Auction:
Datum:
14 Aug 2014
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Advertisement for rare ‘Voice of Negro’ literary magazine Author: Place: Nashville, Tenn Publisher: A.M.E.Church of Sunday School Union Date: 1905 Description: Advertisement for “The Voice of the Negro / the Only Illustrated Monthly Magazine ever Published by Colored People in the South, and the Best Negro Magazine in the World”. 1 pg. on rear cover of Scholars Quarterly for Intermediate Classes, Third Quarter 1905 (Publishing House of the A.M.E.Church of Sunday School Union, Nashville, Tenn., 1905) Full issue of 32pp. in original wrappers. 5 x 7.5”, printed on flimsy brownish paper. The ad touts the “remarkable growth (20,000 subscribers in a single year)” of the new magazine, which has “waded into the conflict to fight for fair play for the great Negro race and to counteract the influence in the North of the morbid literature of the Thomas Dixon mould” (i.e., Dixon’s Ku Klux Klan novel, published that year). With two unidentified inset photos, possibly of editors J. Max Barber and J.W.E.Bowen and laudatory comments from readers in Washington, D.C., Georgia and Mississippi. The ground-breaking national African-American literary journal launched in 1904 in Atlanta, featured writings both by Booker T. Washington and younger Black intellectuals like W.E.B. Dubois, Kelly Miller and Mary Church Terrell, and the poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar and James Corrothers. It ceased publication in 1907. Despite claim of vast readership, the original imprints are now extremely rare. No copy of any of the issues appears in the Blockson Collection, and both the Danky-Hady bibliography and WorldCat locates only microfilm holdings. Thus even this ad becomes an historical collectible. Lot Amendments Condition: Very Good Item number: 248045

Auction archive: Lot number 280
Auction:
Datum:
14 Aug 2014
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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