Plays and Pageants from the Life of the Negro

edited by Willis Richardson

illustrated by James Lesesne Wells 

First edition.  Washington, DC:  The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1930  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Light brown covers are mostly clean, with dark brown text and illustration. 
• Boards show some edgewear.  Corners are bumped.  See photos.  
• Spine has dark brown text and illustration and is a little sunned, with crushed ends.  See photos.
• Binding is strong. 
• Pastedowns and feps have a small stain at back cover. 
• Illustrations, black and white block prints, are bright and clear.   
• Interior is uniformly age-toned.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have some dust at head, a ding to head edge that shows at top margin of some pages.  See photos. 
• PS2025.0305

373 pages. 6 x 8.75 inches

A Very Good copy of the first collection of stage works written by African Americans ("not in dialect"), selected primarily for use in schools.  Included are works by Thelma Myrtle Duncan, Maud Cuney-Hare, John Matheus, May Miller, Willis Richardson, Inez M. Burke, Dorothy C. Guinn, Frances Gunn, and Edward J. McCoo.  

In his introduction Richardson gives credit for editing and ensuring the historical accuracy of the pageants to Dr. Carter G. Woodson.  Striking cover illustration, frontispiece and eight full page illustrations by James Lesesne Wells (plates signed with his initials, although otherwise unaccredited) plus several smaller pictures and vignettes.

Please see photos. More photos available upon request.

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