The Wall That Is My Skin: A Poem

Author: [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] GOELL, Milton J.; Hall Johnson, fwd
Title: The Wall That Is My Skin: A Poem
Publication: New York: Wendell Malliet and Company, 1945
Edition: First Edition

Description: Slim octavo (21cm.); original cloth in pale grey dust jacket printed in maroon; 41pp. A fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.50 at lower front panel); very lightly worn with a short closed tear to top edge of upper panel, spine a shade darkened; Near Fine.

A book-length cycle of "...Poems Inspired by the Negro's Fight for Democratic Rights," authored by a young Jewish-American lawyer/poet. The book is dedicated to the memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt; the African-American composer Hall Johnson contributes a brief foreword; Eleanor Roosevelt is quoted in a blurb on front jacket panel. Uncommon in dustwrapper, especially in such nice condition.

Seller ID: 27390

Subject: African-Americana, Civil Rights, Jews & Judaism, Modern Poetry, Social History



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