Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1919.
Price: $250.00
Hardcover. First edition. Contemporary owner's name in pencil on front fly, else fine in very near fine dustwrapper. Beginning in 1913, Braithwaite, an African-America poet, devoted himself for 17 years to publishing his anthology, the most consistent poetry anthology in America. This volume contains Braithwaite's usual excellent assemblage of poets including Claude McKay, W. Adolphus Roberts, William Carlos Williams, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Edith Wharton, Joyce Kilmer, and others.
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William Stanley Braithwaite
birth name: William Stanley Braithwaite