Accession number
PML 198515
Creator
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000, author.
Published
Detroit, Michigan : Broadside Press, 1970.
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020.
Notes
Poems.
"First edition / first printing. December 1970"--Verso of title page.
Printed dedication on page 5 to Lerone Bennett, Jr. (1928-2018), the Black historian and activist, then editor of Ebony magazine: To Lerone Bennett, Mind, heart, spirit. / "An essential sanity, black and electric."
The entire text and ornamental band on title page are printed in brown.
Printed on back cover: Family Pictures, by Gwendolyn Brooks / cloth $4.50; paper $1.00 / Gwendolyn Brooks reads Family Pictures / tapes: reel or cassette, $5.00.
"First edition / first printing. December 1970"--Verso of title page.
Printed dedication on page 5 to Lerone Bennett, Jr. (1928-2018), the Black historian and activist, then editor of Ebony magazine: To Lerone Bennett, Mind, heart, spirit. / "An essential sanity, black and electric."
The entire text and ornamental band on title page are printed in brown.
Printed on back cover: Family Pictures, by Gwendolyn Brooks / cloth $4.50; paper $1.00 / Gwendolyn Brooks reads Family Pictures / tapes: reel or cassette, $5.00.
Description
23, [1] pages ; 21.5 x 14 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on half-title page: For Darrel, / Sincerely Gwendolyn Brooks / February 9, 1988.
Provenance
Darrel [last name unrecorded].
Binding
Decorated cream wrappers, printed in black and brown, saddle stitched; author's portrait on back cover by Roy Lewis.
Classification
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