First edition of this landmark anthology of African American and diasporic poetry, edited by two central figures of the Harlem Renaissance—Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps—encompassing more than two centuries of work and including Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, James Weldon Johnson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Aimé Césaire, and many others. 8vo (6 x 8.75 inches), hardcover wit dust jacket, 429 pages. Published in 1949 by Doubleday & Company. With a contemporary presentation inscription on the front free endpaper: “To David Hollister / from [Louise?] & Marie Allen / Christmas 1949.” David Manship Hollister (1929–2014) was an American classical and avant-garde composer, pianist, and teacher, then a twenty-year-old student at Harvard, where he graduated in 1951. He subsequently studied composition with Irving Fine, Darius Milhaud, Wallingford Riegger, and Henry Brant. From the estate library of David and Barbara Hollister. Light fraying to cloth. Some rubbing to edge-chipped dust jacket. Front cover split. Limited open tears to spine ends, top edge of rear cover, and rear flap. A pleasing provenance copy of an important postwar anthology.
First edition of this landmark anthology of African American and diasporic poetry, edited by two central figures of the Harlem Renaissance—Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps—encompassing more than two centuries of work and including Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, James Weldon Johnson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Aimé Césaire, and many others. 8vo (6 x 8.75 inches), hardcover wit dust jacket, 429 pages. Published in 1949 by Doubleday & Company. With a contemporary presentation inscription on the front free endpaper: “To David Hollister / from [Louise?] & Marie Allen / Christmas 1949.” David Manship Hollister (1929–2014) was an American classical and avant-garde composer, pianist, and teacher, then a twenty-year-old student at Harvard, where he graduated in 1951. He subsequently studied composition with Irving Fine, Darius Milhaud, Wallingford Riegger, and Henry Brant. From the estate library of David and Barbara Hollister. Light fraying to cloth. Some rubbing to edge-chipped dust jacket. Front cover split. Limited open tears to spine ends, top edge of rear cover, and rear flap. A pleasing provenance copy of an important postwar anthology.
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