We Who Would Die and Other Poems, including Haitian Vignettes. Cet article n’est pas disponible.We Who Would Die and Other Poems, including Haitian Vignettes

First edition. Illustrations by E. Simms Campbell. Large octavo. 92pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Very good with rubbing at the edges and gift inscription on front pastedown. The author was a Richmond-born, World War I veteran who for a time held the world record for the quarter mile, became a doctor and was the Director of the Department of Physical Therapy at Harlem Hospital. The verse is accompanied by illustrations from the African-American artist E. Simms Campbell, a noted cartoonist, he has illustrated works by Sterling Brown, Arna Bontemps, and Langston Hughes.