![Item #47050 From the Dark Tower: Afro-American Writers 1900 to 1960 [Signed]. Arthur P. Davis.](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/47050.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771606510)
From the Dark Tower: Afro-American Writers 1900 to 1960 [Signed]
Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1974. Very Good / Very Good. Item #47050
ISBN: 0882580043
Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Pictorial dust jacket unclipped with $10.95 price present. Blue publisher's cloth over boards with title stamped in white. 306 pp. Dust jacket toned and rubbed with some small closed tears on edges. Text block edges foxed. Remainder mark on top edge. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Overall, book is in very good condition with like jacket. Davis, an esteemed Howard University professor heavily inspired by the Harlem Renaissance, saw this work as a continuation of Vernon Loggins' 1931 book "The Negro Author," which studied African American writing from 1760 to 1900.
Inscribed on front free endpaper to fellow Howard University professors Lettie and Lewis Fenderson: "For my friends and colleagues - Lettie and Lewis Fenderson, With every good wish, Arthur P. Davis 11/16/75"
Price: $75.00