Lot of 5. With scarce 1939 first edition bibliography A Catalogue of Books in the Moorland Foundation, a bibliography of holdings at Howard University. BRAWLEY, Benjamin (1882-1939). The Negro Genius. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944. 8vo. Illustrated. Drab cloth. FIRST EDITION. CALVERTON, V.F. (1900-1940). An Anthology of American Negro Literature. New York: The Modern Library, 1929. Green balloon cloth over flexible boards with blindstamped Kent torchbearer and gilt spine titles with grapevine device (Style 52). FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING, with blues lyrics attributed on p. 223-227. With scarce original dust jacket (style d), with tear at front hinge and some chipping and toning. Some toning to spine caps. Calverton, the pseudonym of George Goetz was a left-radical literary critic and writer who founded Modern Quarterly (later, The Modern Monthly), notable for supporting and publishing the work of African American authors and intellectuals. Dedicated to influential civil rights activist Walter White (1893-1955), leader of the NAACP at the time. Scarce in jacket. Toledano 163.1. CULP, D.W., ed. Twentieth Century Negro Literature: Or a Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro. Toronto: J.L. Nichols & Co., 1902. Large 8vo. With frontispiece of Culp and illustrated throughout with full-page portraits of authors and contributors. Original brown cloth. Presumed FIRST EDITION. Important anthology of early 20th century black thought. PORTER, Dorothy (1905-1995), ed. with Margaret R. HUNTON and Ethel WILLIAMS. A Catalogue of Books in the Moorland Foundation. Washington DC: Howard University, Compiled Under U.S. Works Progress Administration, 1939. 4to. Each part preceded by half-title not included in pagination. Rebound in grey cloth, mimeographed with original front board retained and tipped in (corner repair). FIRST EDITION. Very scarce. WORK, Monroe N. (1866-1945). A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1928. Folio. Green cloth. (Spine sunned with some scuffs to edges and front board). FIRST EDITION. Born to former slaves, Work was a prominent scholar who founded the Department of Records and Research at the Tuskegee Institute.
Lot of 5. With scarce 1939 first edition bibliography A Catalogue of Books in the Moorland Foundation, a bibliography of holdings at Howard University. BRAWLEY, Benjamin (1882-1939). The Negro Genius. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944. 8vo. Illustrated. Drab cloth. FIRST EDITION. CALVERTON, V.F. (1900-1940). An Anthology of American Negro Literature. New York: The Modern Library, 1929. Green balloon cloth over flexible boards with blindstamped Kent torchbearer and gilt spine titles with grapevine device (Style 52). FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING, with blues lyrics attributed on p. 223-227. With scarce original dust jacket (style d), with tear at front hinge and some chipping and toning. Some toning to spine caps. Calverton, the pseudonym of George Goetz was a left-radical literary critic and writer who founded Modern Quarterly (later, The Modern Monthly), notable for supporting and publishing the work of African American authors and intellectuals. Dedicated to influential civil rights activist Walter White (1893-1955), leader of the NAACP at the time. Scarce in jacket. Toledano 163.1. CULP, D.W., ed. Twentieth Century Negro Literature: Or a Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro. Toronto: J.L. Nichols & Co., 1902. Large 8vo. With frontispiece of Culp and illustrated throughout with full-page portraits of authors and contributors. Original brown cloth. Presumed FIRST EDITION. Important anthology of early 20th century black thought. PORTER, Dorothy (1905-1995), ed. with Margaret R. HUNTON and Ethel WILLIAMS. A Catalogue of Books in the Moorland Foundation. Washington DC: Howard University, Compiled Under U.S. Works Progress Administration, 1939. 4to. Each part preceded by half-title not included in pagination. Rebound in grey cloth, mimeographed with original front board retained and tipped in (corner repair). FIRST EDITION. Very scarce. WORK, Monroe N. (1866-1945). A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1928. Folio. Green cloth. (Spine sunned with some scuffs to edges and front board). FIRST EDITION. Born to former slaves, Work was a prominent scholar who founded the Department of Records and Research at the Tuskegee Institute.
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