Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 271

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MANUSCRIPT FOR A KEY REFERENCE (LITERATURE AND POETRY.) FRENCH, WILLIAM, MICHAEL FABRE & AMRITJIT SINGH. Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975. Three complete drafts of the original manuscript: Original, First Carbon, and Second Carbon; the first with copious editing. Approximately 350 typed pages. [New York], 1974-1975

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the original typed manuscript and two additional drafts of French, Fabre and Singh''s definitive bibliography of African-American poets. While the title-page of the published book gives additional credit to Michael Fabre and Amritjit Singh, the major part of the research for this work is usually attributed to French, whose knowledge of black poets was encyclopedic. Provenance: From the library of Dorothy Porter.