Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

250 c   (LITERATURE.) Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men. Illustrated plates by Miguel Covarrubias. 342, [1] pages. 8vo, publisher’s decorated orange cloth, fine; pictorial dust jacket, corners clipped retaining price, professional paper repairs to verso; faint toning to endpapers, else internally clean and unmarked. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1935 [2,000/3,000] first edition . A collection of Negro folk tales from Eatonville, the author’s hometown in Florida, with an introduction by her professor of anthropology, Franz Boas. Because of the heavy, brittle paper stock used, this is one of the most difficult Hurston titles to find in an intact dust jacket. 251 c   (LITERATURE.) Ismail, Ibrahim ibn; and James V. Hatch. Poems for Niggers and Crackers. Illustrations by Camille Billops. [9], 54 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers, minor wear; inked institutional stamp on title page. Np, [May 1965] [300/400] A collaboration between two poets who met while traveling in Egypt. From the introduction by David DuBois:“Poems for Niggers and Crackers then arose out of this uncontrollable hatred and despair of the black poet . . . and the unwanted guilt and disgust of the white poet . . . and the attempts of each to purge himself of these negative emotions through joint poetic experience.” No other copies known at auction. with —three other slim volumes of poetry from the same era: Michael Dei-Anang. Ghana Semi-Tones.Accra: Presbyterian Book Depot, [1962?] * Donald L. Graham. Selections from Black Song. Np, [1965?] * Edward Kamau Brathwaite. Black & Blues. Inscribed by the author. Havana, Cuba, 1976. 250