Inscribed first edition of this anthology of short fiction from more than two dozen Black writers — signed by the Baltimore-based editor to a local educator.
Very good plus.
Price: $1,250.00
"Today the AFRO-AMERICAN has become a national institution." — Foreword
An anthology of stories originally published in the Baltimore newspaper, the AFRO-AMERICAN, inscribed by editor/contributor Ford to local African American junior high English teacher Reba Tasco. The book was subsequently owned (Tasco died in 1952 at just 46 years of age) by prominent Cecil County citizen Charles W. Caldwell. Caldwell served as principal of the Elkton Colored School (later George Washington Carver) beginning in 1929, a position he maintained until the school closed in 1964, and received the Elkton Citizen Of The Year Award in 1965.
Contributors include: Carl Murphy, Ruth Johnson, Albert Monn, Mark Hyman, Martha Brown, C. Leigh Stevenson, Olive Stewart, Ollie Stewart, Howard Meschi, Simeon Booker Jr., Gilmore Spencer, Thomas C. Patterson, Edward Lawson, Roland T. Hamilton, Albert Monn, March Lacy, James H. Hill, Harry Winston, Ed Lacy, Arthur Propes, Rudolph Fisher, H.L. Faggett, Gene Davis, Edwina S. Dixon, John P. Moore, Douglass Hall, Frank Coggins, Ralph Matthews, as well as several contributions each from Hall and Faggett.
As the editors were themselves teachers at Morgan State College, a scarce book with relevant provenance.
First printing. Boston: Meador Publishing Company, (1950). 7.5'' x 5.25''. Original full black cloth with titles stamped in gold. Lacking the rare jacket. 308, [12, blank] pages. Inscribed by Ford in year of publication on front free endpaper: "To / Mrs. Reba H. Tasco / Sincerely / Nick Aaron Ford / Sept 19, 1950." Penciled ownership inscription of "Chas. W. Caldwell / Elkton, Md." to rear pastedown, with the additional annotation: "Purchased from the Tasco Estate." Some bowing to boards. Mild toning to endpapers. Else clean and sound.
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