Between the Covers

Softcover. Periodical. Small octavo. 98pp. Stapled wrappers. Moderate wear and pages with creased corners, very good. A single but notable issue from this influential digest, the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpting articles by and about African-Americans from other publications, there was also much content written expressly for the magazine. This issue is especially notable for printing a 16-page "condensation" from Anny Petry's recently-published book *The Street*, as well as the monthly column "If I Were a Negro," this month penned by Wallace Stegner and titled "The Common Cause of Color." Also prints Fiorello LaGuardia's "The Battle of Bigotry Begins at Home" (condensed from an advertisement by Sachs Quality Stores); E. B. White's "Color Added" (condensed from the book *One Man's Meat*); and "Where Are Your Tears, Christians" by Jesuit priest Rev. George H. Dunne (condensed from *Commonweal*). Ann Petry's *The Street* would become the first novel by an African-American woman to sell over a million copies. An important magazine; early issues are uncommon.

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