first edition
1975 · London
by SOUTHERLAND, Ellease
London: Paul Breman, 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 20,[2]pp. Hint of foxing to upper edge of text, else Fine. Early poetry collection by the Brooklyn native, a winner of the Gwendolyn Brooks Award for Poetry. Southerland's poems have been collected in the pages of The Journal of Black Poetry and Black World; she is currently a professor of African Literature at Pace University in New York. (Inventory #: 25094)