Annie Allen
$7,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books
First edition · Signed
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1949. First edition. Signed by Gwendolyn Brooks on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner. x, 60 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Former owner's name on front free endpaper, else Fine in a Fine unclipped, unsunned dust jacket. A beautiful copy. In 1950 Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize for this book, making her the very first African
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