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Black Writers Bibliographic Reference Books
67763. Afro-American poetry and drama, 1760-1975: a guide to information sources. Detroit, Gale Research Company [1979]. 493 pp. First edition. Printed black and blue cloth. Fine, without dust jacket as issued. American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English; v. 17. Contents: Afro-American poetry, 1760-1975 by William P. French, Michel J. Fabre, Amritjit Singh; Afro-American drama, 1850-1975 by Genviève E. Fabre. Includes unpublished plays by published dramatists, as well. $30
67766. Deodene, Frank. Black American poetry since 1944, a preliminary checklist, by Frank Deodene and William P. French. Chatham, New Jersey, Chatham Bookseller, 1971. 41 pp. First edition. Small ownership stamp on upper corner of verso of front wrapper, otherwise very good in unevenly faded orange wrappers. $10
67769. Gloster, Hugh M. Negro voices in American fiction. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1948. 295 pp. First edition. Gray cloth. Extremities lightly rubbed, otherwise very good, without dust jacket. Critical discussion of the backgrounds of fiction and surveys works by broad historical units: up to WW I, through the black renascence, concluding with fiction of the depression. Bibliography: pp. 273-295. $20
67773. Jordan, Casper LeRoy, comp A bibliographical guide to African-American women writers. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press [1993]. Original maroon cloth. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. First edition. 387 pp. 714 authors listed covering the period 1746 to 1988; a supplement updates entries to 1991.It documents materials from unindexed periodicals as well a bibliographies, books and indexes. $45
67774. Library Company of Philadelphia. Negro history 1553-1903, an exhibition of books, prints, and manuscripts from the shelves of The Library Company of Philadelphia and The Historical Society of Pennsuylvania, 1300-14 Locust Street, April 17 to July 17, 1969. Philadelphia, 1969. 83 pp. First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. 238 items fully described. Illustrated. Preface by Edwin Wolf 2nd. $20
67775. Margolies, Edward. Afro-American fiction, 1853-1976, a guide to information sources [by] Edward Margolies [and] David Bakish. Detroit, Gale Research Company [1979]. 161 pp. Printed black and blue cloth. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English; v. 25. Lists 827 novels and short story collections; provides secondary source materials for 15 major writers; chronology, pp. 105-131. $20
67782. Yellin, Jean Fagan, comp. The pen is ours, a listing of writings by an about African-American women before 1910, with secondary bibliography to the present. Compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin and Cynthia D. Bond. New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991. Blue cloth. A few scuffs, otherwise fine, without dust jacket, as issued. 349 pp. First edition. Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-century Black Women Writers. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. $25
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