Accession number
PML 198522
Creator
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000, author.
Published
Detroit, Michigan : Broadside Press, [1972]
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020.
Notes
First printing.
Printed dedication on p. [7]: "For clarifiers: Dudley Randall, Don Lee, Walter Bradford, George Kent, Alden Bland, Francis and Val Gray Ward."
Illustrated with approximately 80 photographs of Brooks, her family, and friends.
Price on dust jacket: $5.95.
Printed dedication on p. [7]: "For clarifiers: Dudley Randall, Don Lee, Walter Bradford, George Kent, Alden Bland, Francis and Val Gray Ward."
Illustrated with approximately 80 photographs of Brooks, her family, and friends.
Price on dust jacket: $5.95.
Description
215 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the author on half-title page: "For D.H., talented, warm, gallant -- with continuing admiration and continuing friendly concern! / Gwen Brooks, August 17th, 1973." With Melhem's ownership inscription and extensive marginal notes throughout.
Provenance
D.H. Melhem (1926-2013).
Binding
Blue cloth-covered boards lettered in gold, issued in yellow printed dust jacket with author's photograph on back.
Classification
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