[POETRY] -- [MUSIC] -- [PARKS, Gordon (1912-2006), his copies]. A group of 7 books and literary magazines from Gordon Parks' personal collection.
ANDERSON, Walter F. Look Away: 50 Negro Folk Songs. Delaware, OH: Cooperative Recreation Service, Inc., [1950]. -- Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine. Vol. 15, No. 1. New York: Sing Out! Inc., March 1965. -- Black Orpheus: A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature. No. 22. Ibadan and Ikeja, Nigeria: Mbari Club, Longmans of Nigeria, August 1967. -- Negro Digest. Vol. XVI, no. 11. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, September 1967. 98pp. Annual Poetry Issue dedicated to Langston Hughes. -- GIOVANNI, Nikki (b. 1943). Re:Creation. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1973. Fourth printing. SIGNED BY GIOVANNI. -- MILLER, Don (1923-1993), illustrator. The Little Black Book 1979 to 1980. New York: Schenley Industries, 1980. INSCRIBED BY MILLER TO GORDON PARKS. Miller is best remembered for the mural of Dr. King at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. -- Together, 6 publications, 8vo and 12mo, all FIRST EDITIONS except where noted, condition generally fine, Provenance: Gordon B. Parks collection (ownership stamp). [With:] MARGOLIES, Edward, editor. A Native Sons Reader: Selections by Outstanding Black American Authors of the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1970. 8vo. Original green cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Property from a 35-Year Collection from the Southern United States

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