550
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(THEATRE.) ROBESON, PAUL.
Here I Stand.
128 pages. 8vo, original cloth
in a price-clipped dust jacket, which has some slight toning to the rear panel and some off-
set from the dust jacket to the front free end-paper; blind-stamp of a private collection on
the front free end-paper.
London: Dobson, (1958)
[500/750]
THE TRUE FIRST EDITION
,
PRECEDING THE AMERICAN
,
SIGNED BY ROBESON ON THE
TITLE
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PAGE
.
Robeson’s autobiography and defense of his political position. “As I see it, the
challenge to the Negro people in the United States can be stated in two, propositions: 1.
Freedom can be ours, here and now: the long sought after goal of full citizenship under the
Constitution is within our reach. 2. We have the power to achieve that goal: What we our-
selves do will be decisive.” Robeson never quite regained his stature amongst Americans after
the smear campaign of Senator Joe McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities
Committee hearings earlier in the 1950’s.
551
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(THEATRE—VAUDEVILLE.) BERT WILLIAMS.
Bert Williams, Son of
Laughter Edited by Mabel Rowland. A Symposium of Tribute to the Man and
His Work, by his Friends and Associates, with a Preface by David Belasco.
Frontispiece and additional illustrations ions throughout. 8vo, original red cloth; pictorial
dust jacket with some wear, approximately one inch square chip to head of the spine; non-
authorial gift presentation on front paste-down.
New York: The English Crafters, (1923)
[1,000/1,500]
FIRST EDITION
. A
VERY SCARCE BOOK UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BUT ALMOST
NEVER FOUND IN A DUST JACKET
.
A collection of tributes to the great vaudevillian, including
Ring Lardner, W. E. B. Du Bois, Leon Errol, Jessie Fauset, Gearge M Cohan, W. C. Fields
and many others.
550
I...,286,287,288,289,290,291,292,293,294,295 297,298,299,300,301,302,303,304,305,306,...310