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Selected poems of Claude McKay. / With a biographical note by Max Eastman.
LIBRA - Rare PS3525.A24785 A6 1953b Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
- Series:
- Harvest book ; HB161.
- A Harvest book ; HB161
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--African American authors.
- American poetry.
- Jamaican Americans--Poetry.
- Jamaican Americans.
- African Americans--Poetry.
- African Americans.
- Jamaica--Poetry.
- Jamaica.
- Black people.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 110 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1953.
- Contents:
- Songs for Jamaica
- Baptism
- Americana
- Different Places
- Amoroso.
- Notes:
- Cover design by S. A. Summit, Inc.
- "This selection of his poetry, made largely by McKay himself shortly before his death in 1948 and published posthumously, contains all the poems from his earlier volume 'Harlem Shadows', together with a number written during his expatriate years in Europe."--Cover.
- "Published by arrangement with Twayne Publishers, Inc."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is paperback edition (21 cm.).
- OCLC:
- 10818335
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