Powerful Long Ladder [inscribed & signed on stapled card]

Dodson, Owen

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, Inc., 1946. Hardcover. [viii], 103p., good copy of a probable first printing (no stylized "FS" emblem to copyright page but we have handled multiple copies of this original edition and have never seen one present but the publication date of 1946 appears on the title page, the copyright page and the signed card) hardcover bound in cloth boards, post card inscribed and signed and dated December, the year of publication by the poet and stapled to the front free endpaper . Several verse dramas appear as well.

Poetry. Brooklyn, New York born African American poet/playwright/novelist's first book. Dodson, along with Langston Hughes and others, founded the Negro Playwrights Company in 1940.

Cat.No: 344917

Price: $95.00