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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. SIGNED. This copy is VG; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked; binding is tight, but edges show some wear. Signed by Editor. The covers are also VG: intact, including color and design, but light foxing on spine, some signs of age. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES. Signed by Editor + Message.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Clean copy in Very Good + condition. Very faint pencil marking on about 5 pages-no pen marks and no hi-lighting. Covers are clean, and show only very slight shelf wear. Binding is firm.

Paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket present. Later printing. Format is approximately 7.25 inches by 10.25 inches. Some cover soiling. xxiii, [1], 917, 1[1] pages. Bibliography. Index of Authors and titles. Minor edge soiling. Inscribed by Barksdale on fep. Inscription reads To Steve & Leslie with sincere best wishes! Richard K. Barksdale Grennell, 1987. Richard Kenneth Barksdale (1915-1993) was a teacher, scholar and University of Illinois (UI) professor emeritus credited with pioneering the study of black literature. Richard was a professor and administrator for 47 years. He worked at a number of Historical Black Colleges and Universities to include Tougaloo College, Southern University, North Carolina Central University, Morehouse College, and Atlanta University. He joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in 1971. Richard was a specialist in 18th Century and African American Literature. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; Master's Degrees in English from Syracuse University and Harvard University and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from Harvard University. In 1972, with Kenneth Kinnamon, Mr. Barksdale published "Black Writers of America," a pioneering anthology that had an enormous impact in shaping the study of Black American literature and culture. Kinnamon was head of the University of Arkansas English Department from 1982-2002 and was head of the English Department at the University of Illinois from 1965-1982. He received a B.A. from the University of Texas and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was Elythl Pumphrey Stevens Chair of American Literature at the University of Arkansas. This work contains essays, biographies, speeches, letters, plays, poems, and folk literature reflect the literary, intellectual, and social history of Black Americans from 1800 to the time of publication. It addressed the Eighteenth-Century Beginnings, The Struggle Against Slavery and Racism: 1800-1860, Civil Rights, Abolitionists, Black Nationalists, Fugitives Slave Narratives, The Black Man in the Civil War: 1861-1865, Reconstruction and Reaction: 1865-1915; Renaissance and Radicalism: 1915-1945; and The Present Generation: Since 1945. Among the authors represented are: Benjamin Banneker, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Charlotte Forten Grimke, Elizabeth Keckley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Marcus Garvey, Angelina Grimke, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, LeRoi Jones, William Demby, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Eldridge Cleaver.…