Maynard Joan Cooper (6 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Typed note ordering 25 posters for x-mas, by the wife of Ernest Crichlow, nice intercollegality in the Afro-A community.vv/2/0/61.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 8vo, stapled wrappers, circa 30pp, pin hole thru pages else fine, with a full page drawing by Joan Maynard Cooper of John W. Cooper, the first African-American ventriloquist besides one of the months, from Ms. Cooper's library but with indication thereof, very scarce.(VV6/2).…

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Large Poster, circa 18by25 inches, with circa 45 heads separately drawn and colored by Maynard, the first African-American woman to work on comics, folded, from MLK to Atticus to the leaders of Africa.(vvtvunder2).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Bacchus is listed as the lead writer and artist on this comic, she was the first Afro-American woman to be involved in the production of comics. Also with a printed FREEDOMWAYS x-mas card drawn by Bacchus, & 4 separate printed mock ups for what were undoutedly to be cards, ONE SIGNED in the back, & a number of b&w photos of Bacchus. Bacchus often used her husband's names, so the proliferation of them. Her father was also the first well known Afro-A ventriliquist.She was instrumental in preserving the slave site WEEKSVILLE in Brklyn.vvtvunder.…

No Binding. Condition: Good. Poster, circa 18by20, folded and somewhat edge worn, light loss at creases, pretty terrible paper, with a picture of a Repatriation ship and Garvey.NO SCANS.vvtvunder.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Circa 2by4 cut sheets, 24pp, with light pencil drawings and text for a african-american children's book by Bacchus "I want to be a Tiger" an african-american boy finds his real identity, to my mind mid 50's. vv2/0/62.