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Penguin Publishing Group, 1993. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: The Viking Press, 1935. Hardcover. ix, 105p., ownership name and pink dampstain from red topstain on endpapers, foreword, fair first edition in variant black buckram boards, remnants of red dust jacket laid-in.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Viking Press, 1935. First edition. 105pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth. Fine, blindstamp on tp. First edition. 105pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

New York: Viking Press, 1935 Hardcover 1st Printing in gilt-stamped black cloth, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, no dj, boards Near Fine with only slight shelf wear, pages clean crisp & unfoxed, offsetting to endpapers at gutters, neat name to endpaper, else Fine; 8vo; 105pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

New York:: Viking,, 1935.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in red cloth with spine label (pencil phrase on rear endpaper, erasable, no dj.). First printing. The title poem of this collection was originally privately published in an edition of only 200 copies, and was written in reaction to the news that the when the US was sending a contigent of gold star mothers to Europe to visit the graves of their sons, that the Negro mothers would not be allowed to sail on the same ship as the white gold-star mothers. Also includes poems from his first book of poetry and some which had not previously been published in book form.

New York: Viking Press, 1935. First Edition. Cloth w/ paper lapel on spine. Very good/fair +. 105p. Book plate on front pastedown, jacket edges tattered and chipped with holes on flap folds. Collection of 40 works of which the title piece had been privately printed for the author's friends and some have not been previously published by the author, civil rights activist, and songwriter of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," also known as the "Negro National Anthem." (9-1/4"x6-1/8")

New York: Viking, 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Black cloth with gilt decorations, red top stain. Near fine with ink marks on the front pastedown and rubbing.

xi-105 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original red cloth with cream paper label with black lettering to label in original jacket. First edition.James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. In 1920 he was the first black to be chosen as executive secretary of the organization, effectively the operating officer. He served in that position from 1920 to 1930. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novels, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture. Johnson's first success as a writer was the poem "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" (1899), which his brother Rosamond set to music; the song became unofficially known as the "Negro National Anthem." During his time in the diplomatic… Read More

Penguin Classics, 1993-02-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Viking, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 105pp. Original red cloth, white paper spine label printed in black, in the original dust jacket. As election of over 50 years of verses; contains over 40 poems in all (including 'Lift Every Voice and Sing'), plus the author's foreword and prose commentaries. Few small nicks and chips, slight creases, rubbing and browning to jacket to the edges; slight internal browning to edges and endpapers.

New York: Viking, 1935. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Offsetting to the front fly from a clipping, else fine in a very good dustwrapper with some shallow chipping, mostly on the front panel.

New York: Viking Press, 1935. 105 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth. Fine, blindstamp on tp. 105 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. INSCRIBED. Inscribed "For Mrs. Charles L. Mead/ Sincerely, James Weldon Johnson/ October 4-1937.

New York: The Viking Press, 1935. First printing. Fine in a price clipped dust jacket. 8vo, 105pp; black cloth.