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Book Condition: Used Very Good
Seller: Antiquarian Book Shop

United States
About Item: Cambridge: Issued by W.S.B.. Very Good. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 87 pages; Contents clean and secure in original binding of brown cloth spine with brown boards, printed paper titles label on front board. Some wear to cloth at spine ends, corners rounded. William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite (1878 – 1962) was an African-American writer, poet, literary critic, anthologist, and publisher. His work as a critic and anthologist was widely praised and important in the development of East Coast poetry styles in the early 20th century. Braithwaite was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1878. According to Jill Lepore, his father "came from a wealthy British Guiana family; his mother was the daughter of a North Carolina slave." The surveys that Braithwaite published in the Boston Evening Transcript led him to begin his most important life work: publishing an annual anthology of "Magazine Verse." These anthologies covered a wide range of poets, from the conservative… Read More
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