Dark Symphony: Negro Literature In America

New York: The Free Press, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); turquoise cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; xx,604pp. Spine ends nudged, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), lightly edgeworn, with a fingernail-sized indentation toward the center of the front joint; Very Good+ or better. An anthology containing 91 selections from the works of African American authors, with contributions by Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Rudolph Fisher, Countee Cullen, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and others.