(LITERATURE AND POETRY) PORTER DOROTHY North American Negro

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HEAVILY ANNOTATED FOR A SECOND EDITION (LITERATURE AND POETRY.) PORTER, DOROTHY. North American Negro Poets. A Bibliographical Checklist. 1760-1944. 90 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers; rear cover detached; copious pencil notations by the author. Hattiesburg, Mississippi: The Book Farm, 1845

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first edition, heavily annotated by porter for a second revised edition which was never published. Groundbreaking "North American Negro Poets" was the first attempt at a checklist of black poets. First published by the noted book dealer Charles Heartman in 1945, Mrs. Porter probably started to work on a revised edition in the late 1960s or early 1970s. However, book-dealer and bibliographer, William French (University Place Books) had been working on a bibliography of black poetry and drama and contacted Mrs. Porter for her advice. Mrs Porter thus abandoned her project. William French''s Afro-American Poetry and Drama appeared in 1976. See lot # 271.