Gwendolyn Brooks - A Street In Bronzeville - FIRST EDITION In Dustjacket - 1945
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BROOKS, Gwendolyn. A Street in Bronzeville.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945. First Edition. Small octavo (7.75" x 5"); vi, 57p. Dustjacket with original $2.00 price; book in black cloth with orange title strip to front and spine and gilt lettering. Jacket shows a few small chips and tears along edges with toning to back and interior, but is clean and crisp overall. Boards are square with light bumping to corners and spine ends and some dulling to gilt lettering. Cle...an half-inch tear at bottom of half title, with a faint crease to last page of text. Pages a bit toned as expected but unmarked. Binding is sound. Not an ex-library copy.
Brooks was the first African American to win the Pulitzer and the first African American woman to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was appointed poet laureate of Illinois from 1968 until her death, and served as United States Poet Laureate from 1985-86. A Street in Bronzeville was her first book.
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1945. First Edition. Small octavo (7.75" x 5"); vi, 57p. Dustjacket with original $2.00 price; book in black cloth with orange title strip to front and spine and gilt lettering. Jacket shows a few small chips and tears along edges with toning to back and interior, but is clean and crisp overall. Boards are square with light bumping to corners and spine ends and some dulling to gilt lettering. Cle...an half-inch tear at bottom of half title, with a faint crease to last page of text. Pages a bit toned as expected but unmarked. Binding is sound. Not an ex-library copy.
Brooks was the first African American to win the Pulitzer and the first African American woman to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was appointed poet laureate of Illinois from 1968 until her death, and served as United States Poet Laureate from 1985-86. A Street in Bronzeville was her first book.
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