[Rarebooks] FS: SOUTHERN ROAD Wonderfully Inscribed by Sterling Brown to the Lyricist of "Over the Rainbow, " price reduced
Charles Agvent
charles at charlesagvent.com
Mon Feb 15 10:26:55 EST 2016
Price reduced to $1000 NET
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 lyricist ("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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