[Rarebooks] FS: Sterling Brown INSCRIBED to composer Yip Harburg

[Charles Agvent]

BROWN, Sterling A [HARBURG, Yip]. SOUTHERN ROAD. New York: Harcourt 
Brace & Co., (1932). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. 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. 
(#014599)        $2,000.00

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