Research Catalog

Title

The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay on the Negro's creative genius / by James Weldon Johnson.

Publication

New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Company, [1922]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
• Harcourt Brace & Company, publisher.
• Quinn & Boden Company, printer.

Description

xlviii, 217, [1] p.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Bookplates (Provenance)
• African Americans > Poetry
• American poetry > African American authors
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)

Genre/Form

• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

• "Copyright, 1922, by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc."--verso of title page.
• "Printed in the U.S.A. by the Quinn & Boden Company, Rahway, N.J."--verso of title page.
• Includes index.
• Last page blank.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online via HathiTrust (Harvard University and University of Michigan copies), Internet Archive (Library of Congress copy), and Bartleby.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on recto of third free endleaf "To my good friend Arthur A. Schomburg, whose kindness and interest helped make this book possible. Very sincerely, James Weldon Johnson, New York City, March 22- 1922." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Paul Laurence Dunbar -- James Edwin Campbell -- James D. Corrothers -- Daniel Webster Davis -- William H.A. Moore -- W.E. Burghardt Du Bois -- George Marion McClellan -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- George Reginald Margetson -- James Weldon Johnson -- John Wesley Holloway -- Leslie Pinckney Hill -- Edward Smyth Jones -- Ray G. Dandridge -- Fenton Johnson -- R. Nathaniel Dett -- Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Claude McKay -- Joseph S. Cotter Jr. -- Roscoe C. Jamison -- Jessie Fauset -- Anne Spencer -- Alex Rogers -- Waverly Turner Carmichael -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- Charles Bertram Johnson -- Otto Leland Bohanan -- Theodore Henry Shackelford -- Lucian B. Watkins -- Benjamin Brawley -- Joshua Henry Jones Jr.

Call Number

Sc Rare 811.08-J (Johnson, J. W. Book of American Negro poetry)

LCCN

22005816

OCLC

270247

Title

The book of American Negro poetry : chosen and edited, with an essay on the Negro's creative genius / by James Weldon Johnson.

Imprint

New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Company, [1922]

Additional Formats

Also available online via HathiTrust (Harvard University and University of Michigan copies), Internet Archive (Library of Congress copy), and Bartleby.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811.08-S (accession no. B541538) inscribed: in ink on recto of third free endleaf "To my good friend Arthur A. Schomburg, whose kindness and interest helped make this book possible. Very sincerely, James Weldon Johnson, New York City, March 22- 1922." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, editor.

Harcourt Brace & Company, publisher.

Quinn & Boden Company, printer.

Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 811.08-J (Johnson, J. W. Book of American Negro poetry)