Black Man's Verse

by Frank Marshall Davis

$1,800 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1935. First edition, first printing. 83, 2 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in silver. Near Fine with smoke odor to contents, light rubbing to silver stamping. A rather scarce book of poetry by the African American journalist, poet, political and labor movement activist, and businessman, who in the 1970s rubbed elbows with and inspired a then-young Barack Obama in Hawaii. In Obama's

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