Fine Literature & Modern Firsts
Tue, Apr 26, 2022 12:00PM EDT
Lot 13
BROOKS, Gwendolyn (1917?2000). For Illinois 1968. A Sesquic...
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BROOKS, Gwendolyn (1917?2000). For Illinois 1968. A Sesquicentennial Poem. [Chicago?]: Illinois Sesquicentennial Commission for the author, 1968. 8vo. Original printed blue wrappers. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY BROOKS on the colophon in the year of her appointment as poet laureate. An uncommon work from the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
