Cullen Charles Illustrator (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. VG, slight shelfwear. Cullen, Charles (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 96 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.03 inches. In Stock. Cullen, Charles (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: very good. "Copyright 1933" to copyright page. Grey cloth quarto with green spine; 308 pages; b/w illustrations and plates, 24cm. Contains numerous beautifully illustrated b/w plates. Lacks jacket, save front or rear flap,which is laid in. ll Poetry. Ex-Library, with usual library stamps on first few pages. Cardpocket residue to front pastedown. Handwritten note and neat signature and date on FFEP. Small spine label sticker residue. Boards gently damp-stained and soiled. Very slightly frayed corners. Mild wear to head and tail of spine. Rear paste-down partly and superficially cracked at hinge. Overall a tight, for the most part clean, crispy copy in very good condition. Cullen, Charles (illustrator).…

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. (8), 11, (1)pp. Unopened. Quarter black cloth with paper spine label over yellow boards. Title and each leaf of text within a woodcut border. Illustrated with one double-page plate. The boards are soiled and the paper spine is a bit chipped. Though internally clean and unopened, this copy lacks the original slipcase. Countee Cullen uses the traditional structure of the medieval ballad to retell a legend about an English lord who must choose between a Black bride and a white one, with deadly results. In a letter, the author described the poem as "quite a gruesome affair with no less than three murders in it. It is founded on an old song which every colored Kentuckian knows." (OCLC) Countee Cullen (1903-1946) was an African-American poet and part of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1925 he won the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize and this book is dedicated to Witter Bynner.…

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 89 pages. In Very Good condition. Quarter bound in black cloth with boards covered in decorative paper. Spine with paper label. Covers protected with a mylar wrapper. Mild shelf wear and scuffing. Spine label age toned. Upper edge of text block dyed orange. Front free endpaper inscribed by Countee Cullen. Pages clean. CX Consignment. Shelved in Case 0. 1345660. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

First Edition. First edition, limited issue. Signed by Countee Cullen on the colophon at front, copy 124 of 128. xiii, 111 pp. Bound in publisher's quarter cloth, silver title label, internal bookmark. Near Fine with wear to title label and some glue staining around it, lacking dust jacket. A signed copy of a major collection by the Harlem Renaissance poet. Signed.…