The World of Gwendolyn Brooks: A Street in Bronzeville / Annie Allen / Maud Martha / The Bean Eaters / In the Mecca [Inscribed and Signed]

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Very Good -/Fair. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in orange decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($8.50); xiii,[1],426pp. Dust jacket quite worn with large triangular loss to upper panel and subsequent long closed tear slightly affecting design, private library manuscript spine label and ownership signature to front free endpaper, the whole quite dust-soiled including cloth boards; overall a Very Good but unlovely copy in a Fair jacket.

Uncommon early compilation of prose and poetry by the Black Arts author Gwendolyn Brooks, inscribed and signed on title page, "For Betty / Sincerely / Gwendolyn Brooks / October 23, 1993.