Good Will Days: Poems plays prose selections essay material anecdotes and stories speeches and sayings for the promotion of Racial Good Will Our American Holidays
1947Best.-Nr. 015114New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Signed by Authors. Signed by Schauffler on front free endpaper. First edition same date on title and copyright pages. Red cloth pictorially stamped in black. Internally clean and bright. Dust jacket spine toned; some light edgewear and mild soiling; not price clipped $2.75; in an archival mylar sleeve. pp. xix 243. An anthology pieces chosen to emphasize the promotion of racial and ethnic good will good citizenship and Americanization and which celebrate the contributions of African-Americans Jews and other immigrants from across Europe and Asia. These poems plays and prose selections were chosen by Schauffler and Paulmier in part for the observance of Brotherhood Week George Washington Carver Day Negro History Week I Am an American Citizen Day and Good Will Day. The authors include George Washington Abraham Lincoln Booker T. Washington Franklin Delano Roosevelt Thomas Wolfe Theodore Roosevelt James Russell Lowell William Cullen Bryant John Greenlieaf Whittier Melvin Tolson Mary Austin Angelo Patri Edmud Bok Oscar Leonard George Papashvily and several others. The editors were Robert Haven Schauffler 1879-1964 an American writer poet biographer Olympic tennis player and decorated veteran of the First World War and Hilah Paulmier 1885-1965 a librarian at the New York Public Library between 1911 and 1945 and the author of eight books on history. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover
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