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THBBraithwaite, Anthology of Magazine Prose 1914 - 1923
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This is a group of five Anthologies of Magazine Verse edited by William Stanley Braithwaite, all published between 1914 and 1923, and they are an important source of material for Black history and American poetry in the early 1900’s.
Size: 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.
William Stanley Braithwaite (1878 - 1962) was an African American writer, poet, anthologist, and published in the United States. His father came from a wealthy British Guiana family, his mother was the daughter of a North Carolina slave. At the age of 12, his father died, so he was forced to quit school to support his family. At 15 he was apprenticed to a typesetter with a Boston publisher, he published his first set of poems when he was 26 and served as an editor of The Colored American Magazine. His most important work was publishing an annual anthology of Magazine Verse: these anthologies covered a wide range of poets, from the conservative to the avant-garde, from the old to the new, and though Braithwaite has been criticized by African-American scholars because he didn’t discuss African American issues in his magazines or anthologies, his anthologies are notable because they included African-American writers. He is recognized as having a significant role in introducing Harlem Renaissance poets to a wider audience through his anthologies, even though he downplayed discussing race in his own work.
The five volumes here are titled “Anthology of Magazine Prose … And Yearbook Of American Poetry” for 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, and 1923, all edited by Braithwaite.
The volumes for 1914, 1917, and 1918 were all owned and signed by Rene Lacoste, one of the Four Musketeers of French tennis in the 1920’s and ’30’s and one of the great tennis players of his era. (Lacoste won Wimbledon and the French Open, and his signature alone has value.) He won seven Grand Slams and was nicknamed “the crocodile" because of the way he dealt with opponents, and if you own a Lacoste shirt with the alligator logo, well, that came from Rene Lacoste; he founded the Lacoste clothing brand in 1933.
The books are quarter bound, with brown spines, brown boards, and a paste-on label on the front covers, with blank endpapers, a half-title, then the title page, the copyright page, a list of Contents, sometimes an Introduction, the page numbers vary in each volume, there is usually an Index at the back of each volume, and the top edges are gilt on all the anthologies except for 1923.
The Anthology for 1914 is 205 pages long, with uncut pages, it has Rene Lacoste’s signature on the front flyleaf, it was published in New York by Lawrence J. Gomme and is the second edition published in 1916, and it has poems by Bliss Carman, Vachel Lindsay, Joyce Kilmer (he who wrote “Trees”) and numerous other poems inside.
The Anthology for 1915 has 296 pages, including an Index at the rear, with poems by James Weldon Johnson, Robert Frost (The Road Not Taken), Sara Teasdale and others, it was published by Lawrence J. Gomme, and it’s the second edition published in 1916. Johnson was an important Black author and civil rights activist who wrote the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing", which later became known as the Black National Anthem.
The Anthology for 1917 was published by Small, Maynard, & Co. and is a first edition because it has no other printings, it has Rene Lacoste's signature dated 1917 on the front flyleaf, it’s 412 pages long, including an Index at the rear, with poems by Carl Sandburg, Stephen Vincent Benet, and Amy Lowell, as well as one by Roscoe Jamison, a black poet who died young - his “Negro Soldier” is published here and in The Crisis.
The Anthology for 1918 is a first edition published in New York by Small Maynard & Co. (it has only one date on the title and copyright pages, which makes this a first edition), it has Rene Lacoste’s signature dated 1918 on the front flyleaf, a list of books by Braithwaite on the frontis page, 285 pages of text, including the Index, uncut pages towards the rear, a round blue stamp or seal on the rear paste-down, and in the Acknowledgments section, the death of Joyce Kilmer is noted - he died in World War I at the second Battle of the Marne.
The Anthology for 1923 is a first edition published by B J Brimmer (it has First Impression November 1923 on the copyright page, which makes this a first edition), an illustrated title page, Part I is 376 pages long and Part II is 188 pages long, including an Index to Titles and an Index to First Lines at the rear, and a couple of pages in the front have corner creases, It also includes a poem by DuBose Heyward, an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy. which was adapted into George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in 1935.
The books measure 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches wide and are in good condition, with tight bindings and clean pages and text. There is light wear on the spines and faint brown spots on the boards, light wear at the tips, light soiling on the paper labels, faint brown spots on a couple of endpapers, three books have the signature of Rene Lacoste, and these scarce anthologies have poems of established and fledgling authors coming into their own.
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