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Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2003) Maud Martha, inscribed first edition.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953.
Stated first edition, first printing with Harper code "I-C" to copyright, octavo; inscribed by Brooks, "sincerely" in October 1989 in black ink on the half-title; bound in publisher's green cloth-backed boards, spine lettered in russet; with the unclipped illustrated dust jacket (small sections at lower corners, rear panel lightly soiled, small creases, mostly at corners; bookseller label to rear pastedown); 7 1/2 x 4 7/8 in.
Maud Martha is the only prose work written by Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Laureate, Gwendolyn Brooks, who received praise and encouragement from Harlem Renaissance giants Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, and Richard Wright early on in her career.
