Annie Allen

by Gwendolyn Brooks 

First edition, Second printing.  New York:  Harper & Brothers, 1949  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition, with a GOOD DJ under Mylar.

• Black cloth covers are mostly clean, with gilt text to spine.  Boards show a few fingerprints, some edgewear.  Corners are sharp, a small bow to lower rear corner.  See photos. 
• Spine has gilt text and is bright with firm ends.
• Binding is strong. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some toning at gutter, margins, some faint ink stamps to ffep.  See photos.  
• Frontispiece is present.
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits a few stray spots at page edges.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• DJ is nicely preserved behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper.
• Close examination of DJ reveals some edgewear, chipped corners, bumping along foot, closed tears, tiny chips.  See photos.   
• PS2025.1120

60 pages. 5 x 7.5 inches

Publisher's black cloth with Harper & Brothers badge blindstamped on lower corner.  Dust jacket, as issued.  The second printing of the first edition, lacking the First Edition F-Y statement, with same price of $2.50 and rear flap with "The Critics and Annie Allen" rather than "The Critics and A Street in Bronzeville."  Drawing of the author by Ernest Alexander at the frontis and back of jacket.  SCARCE in any 1949 printing, Condition is Very Good.

Annie Allen was the 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, which made Brooks the first African-American to win that award.  Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was born in Topeka, Kansas, but moved to Chicago as an infant and spent her life there.  A published poet in her teens, Brooks always felt her true home was Chicago, and her works focused on the black experience there.  Annie Allen was Brooks's second book of poetry, the first being A Street in Bronzeville, published in 1945.

Second printing, with critics' notices on the rear return of the DJ.

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