Description
First edition of Negro Poets and Their Poems by Robert Thomas Kerlin.
Octavo, xv, 285pp. Green cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. No additional printings listed. Slight lean to text block, light rubbing to corners, a near fine example. Complete with 40 illustrations, including a frontispiece.
One of the notable anthologies of African American poetry published during the Harlem Renaissance. Contributors include Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
