The World Needs

by African Americans, Booker T. Jackson, Poetry

$45 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Fort Smith, AR: South and West, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Octavo 22.75cm ; illustrated wrappers, stapled; 40pp. Touch of oxidation to staples, mild wear and dustiness to wrapper extremities; Near Fine. The native Arkansas poet's second book, a collection of uplifting Afro-centric poems chiefly gathered from various literary magazines. Contents deal with issues of race, family,

• Binding: Wrappers

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