[Rarebooks] FS: Sterlng Brown's SOUTHERN ROAD, Inscribed twice, once to Yip Harburg

[Charles Agvent]

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.   $2,000.00	

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