Stand by Countee Cullen (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Early printing. $4.95 price on jacket. Light edge wear to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A very nice hardcover bound in black cloth in dust jacket. First edition, stated. Jacket has significant shelf wear and 2" closed tear at top of spine, small chips along top edge. Binding strong. Pages clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Stated first edition. Previous owner's name and date (1951) on front free endpaper, else very good in a good (large chip along the top edge of the front panel) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Ex Library, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, Hardcover, book fair, dust jacket fair with wrinkles.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+++. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. x. 197pp. Black cloth boards with gilt title on spine. Chipped Dust Jacket. Poetry. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Owner's contemporary bookplate on front flyleaf, Rear cover is a bit dull and moderately rubbed, else a very good copy in about very good dust jacket with moderate edge wear, with a number of short creased tears and small chips with moderate discoloration and soiling visible on the verso only. Rear panel of dust jacket prints a three-paragraph blurb about Gwendolyn Brook's first book, A Street in Bronzeville, which concludes with a six-line quote, about Brooks, by Richard Wright.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: VG Jacket (light edge wear). Later printing (circa 1972?). New York:: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1947. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (5.95). INSCRIBED/SIGNED by Ida M. Cullen (Mrs. Countee Cullen). No remainder mark. Bound in the original black cloth. Sharp corners. From the Dust Jacket: "This is a collection of the best poems of the distinguished poet, Countee Cullen, selected by the author, shortly before his death [in 1946], from the entire range of his work. Included in this volume are several new and hitherto unpublished poems. Here are poems burning and bitter, poems deeply religious in feeling, poems concerned with death, and poems that tell the heavy burden a man had to carry, a burden that made him write: 'Yet do I marvel at this curious thing, To make a poet black and bid him sing!' But not all the poems are serious or tragic. Countee Cullen wrote with a lyrical beauty, he loved the sound off singing lines and enchanting words. He wrote poems of love, poems to love, and brilliant epitaphs." . INSCRIBED/SIGNED by the poet's wife. . Later printing (circa 1972?). Hard Cover. Very Good condition./VG Jacket (light edge wear). 8vo. x, 197pp. .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Uncommon title. First printing April, 1947. A lovely, crisp, clean copy in black boards with gilt lettering, covered in a jacket with a few small chips on edges. The author's best poems selected before his death; including six never before published.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, original cloth of the publisher, 21 x 15 cm, X + 197 pp., English, 1st Edition, book condition: Very Good [This description may have been translated by AI.].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. 197p octavo. A very good + copy in a very good jacket. Minor wear to extremities. Jacket is rubbed with small nicks/chips along edges, color along spine slightly faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. 197p octavo, A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with nicks at the crown and 2 corners. A crisp copy of the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Bookplate of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Yerby, and "The Frank Yerby's" in ink, both on the front pastedown, top corners a little bumped, near fine in very good dustwrapper with a few modest chips along the upper extremities. Laid in is a letter from a Harper & Brothers publicity direcotr sending the book to Yerby and soliciting any comments or blurbs he might want to provide (alas he did not). A collection of Cullen's best poems, selected by himself, published shortly after his death. A fascinating association copy. Yerby was the author of *The Foxes of Harrow* (1946), and a slew of other bestselling romance novels. Despite his success very few of his fans were aware that he was of mixed race, his father being part African-American and part Seminole. Only later in his career did he address race more directly, especially in his 1971 novel *The Dahomean*.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New York & Evanston: Harper & Row, (1947). 1st collected ed., x, 197 pp. 8vo., original black cloth, d.j. (A).

Condition: Very Good. Very good hardcover in very good jacket. One small closed tear to front of jacket and light rubbing, otherwise fine. Mylared. Few light tape marks to front and back endpages of boo, otherwise fine.