The watermelon dress : portrait of a woman : poems and illustrations / by Paulette Childress White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Paulette Childress, 1948- author, illustrator.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry.

African American women authors.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

61 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Lotus Press, 1984.

Contents:

I. Old Calico

II. Being Fitted

III. Days in the Dress

IV. Beyond the Watermelon Dress: Notes on the Composition.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is "First Edition 2nd Printing 1987".

Banks Collection copy has stamp of Pyramid Bookstore in Washington, D.C. on page [1].

ISBN:

0916418537

9780916418533

OCLC:

11000603