John Edgar Tidwell Editor Editor Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI. 1992. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Inscribed by the Editor on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight bumping to tail. DJ: Near Fine; slight bumping to tail. Red cloth boards and spine with black lettering on the spine. 373 pp 8vo. Davis was a prominent black poet and journalist in the 1930s and 40s mostly in Chicago and Atlanta until he moved to Hawaii in 1948 and turned his back on his literary career causing him to disappear from literary history until the black history movement began in the 1960s. Davis devoted his life to self-empowerment through the written and spoken word and vigorous promotion of black expression through art and activism. A clean very presentable copy. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL. 2002. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Inscribed by the editor on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine. Black cloth boards and spine with bright blue lettering on the spine. 275 pp 8vo. This book collects for the first time all of Frank Marshall Davis's extant published poems as well as his known previously unpublished work. This volume recovers the rich variety of Davis's poetic expression, much of it informed by his political convictions and by his multifaceted work as a journalist. The editor examines both Davis's poetry and his politics, presenting a subtle portrait of a complex writer devoted to exposing discriminatory practices and reaffirming the humanity of the common people. A clean very presentable copy. Inscribed by Author(s).…