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Boston: B.J. Brimmer Company, 1922.

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Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois. Boards slightly splayed, slight offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, a very near fine copy in a lightly foxed, very good plus dustwrapper with a few very small chips at the extremities. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case with morocco spine label. For many years Johnson, an African-American woman comfortably married to a prominent Washington attorney, read voraciously, pursued a serious interest in music, and hosted the capitol's only significant African-American literary salon, "The Saturday Nighter's Club." At age 41 she published her first book of poetry, *The Heart of a Woman*, which was well-received but criticized in some quarters for not specifically addressing race. At the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance she published this influential collection in part as a response to that criticism. Of particular note were her poems concerning alienation and mixed race (Cedric Dover called her "the first to give peoples of mixed origin the pride in themselves that they so badly needed"). A notable rarity of African-Americana, rarely found with the flimsy jacket intact. We have never seen another jacketed copy.

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Item #72735 Bronze. Georgia Douglas JOHNSON.
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Georgia Douglass Johnson
birth name: Georgia Douglass Johnson
born: 9/10/1880
died: 5/14/1966

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Important poet of the Harlem Renaissancemore