[Rarebooks] FS: Superb presentation copy of Sterling Brown's SOUTHERN ROAD to composer of "Over The Rainbow"

[Charles Agvent]

One of 150 interesting items included in our HOLIDAY 2008 Catalogue now 
posted on our web site.  Included are beautifully bound classics, signed 
books, fine press titles, poetry, illustrated books, and the unusual.

BROWN,  Sterling  A  [HARBURG,  Yip].  SOUTHERN  ROAD.  New  York:
Harcourt  Brace & Co. (1932). First Edition. Illustrated with drawings
by  E. Simms Campbell. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front
endpaper  "in  fellowship" to Donald Young. Both Young and Brown  were
friends  of  anthropologist  Melville Jean  Herskovits  who  conducted
research  into the physical anthropology of the American Negro in  the
1920s.  Additionally  INSCRIBED and SIGNED below that at a later  date
to  composer  ("Over  the  Rainbow") Yip Harburg: "one  of  my  eleven
fans/with    best  wishes/Sterling   A.  Brown/(S.A.   Greer)/(Senator
Billboard/Rawkins)/1955."  Brown's  inscription incorporates the  name
of  his famous poetic character Slim Greer, who represented the  noble
black  man  who  could overcome his tribulations with  humor  and  who
relied  on his wit to disarm his white persecutors, as well as one  of
Harburg's  famous  creations,  the bigoted senator  from  the  musical
FINIAN'S  RAINBOW  who  is  turned black by a magical  spell  and  who
learns  the  lesson  of tolerance. Superb presentation copy.  Wear  to
upper  front corner otherwise quite nice. Very Good, lacking as  usual
the very scarce dustwrapper.                                  $2000.00

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