Lincoln University Poets Fine Editions Press, NY 1954 First edition. Edited by Waring Cuney, Langston Hughes and Bruce McM. Wright. Foreword by Dr. Horace Mann Bond. Introduction by J. Saunders Redding. Fine in an about very good dustwrapper with small tears and a tiny chip. One of 1000 copies of this Centennial anthology of poems by graduates of the traditionally African-American university with contributions by the three editors, as well as by Melvin B. Tolson, Edward Silvera, George Chester Morse, John M. Williams and several others. This copy has been Inscribed or Signed by editor Wright, Raymond Patterson, Herman R. Branson (President of Lincoln at the time of the presentation), and several other African-American literary figures and/or Lincoln alumni and faculty. Laid in is a letter from the Director of Alumni Relations informing his correspondent that they have no address for Waring Cuney. Scarce title. Between the Covers-Rare Books, ABAA Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Melvin B. Tolson Rendezvous With America poetry Dodd (New York), 1944.

M.B. Tolson Libretto for the Republic of Liberia poetry preface by Allen Tate Twayne, 1953.

	M.B. Tolson Libretto for the Republic of Liberia poetry preface by Allen Tate Twayne, 1953. "There is a great gift for language, a profound historical sense, and a first-rate intelligence at work in this poem from first to last..." from the Preface by Allen Tate

From a private collector: two inscriptions from Libretto for the Republic of Liberia

M.B. Tolson Harlem Gallery Book One, The Curator First Edition poetry introduction by Karl Shapiro Twayne, 1965.

From a private collector: two inscriptions from Harlem Gallery

M.B. Tolson Harlem Gallery Book One, The Curator (paperback) intro. by Karl Shapiro Collier / Macmillan / African American Library, 1969 detail:

The images below are from a closed auction, but we thought the images of the enclosed letter from the Langston University President were interesting. www.childrensbookmarket.com via www.collectorsbookmarket.com

from the Archive: Le Chambertin Large Folded Menu, Dated March 24, 1965 "M.B. Tolson entertained here by his publishers, Twayne, Inc."

Melvin B. Tolson A Gallery of Harlem Portraits poetry edited with afterword by Robert M. Farnsworth U. of Missouri Press 1979.

Caviar and Cabbage: Selected Columns by Melvin B. Tolson from the Washington Tribune, 1937-194 (articles), edited with an introduction by Robert M. Farnsworth University of Missouri Press, 1982.

Above: a sample of three anthologies that include Tolson: Black Poetry: A Supplement to Anthologies Which Exclude Black Poets. Broadside Press, Detroit 1969; Dudley Randall, Editor American Negro Poetry Hill and Wang, New York, 1966; Arna Bontemps, Editor Anger, and Beyond: The Negro Writer In the United states Harper and Row, 1966; Author: Herbert Hill

"Harlem Gallery" and Other Poems of Melvin B. Tolson Edited by Raymond Nelson Introduction by Rita Dove University of Virginia Press annotated edition (August 1, 1999)

Melvin B. Tolson Harlem Group of Negro Writers Edited by Edward J. Mullen Greenwood Press, 2001

Melvin B. Tolson: 1898-1966 Plain Talk and Poetic Prophecy Robert M. Farnsworth University of Missouri Press February 12, 2008

Melvin B. Tolson Libretto for the Republic of Liberia Paperback Collier Books, 1970

Two early resources on Tolson: Melvin B. Tolson Twayne's World Author Series by Joy Flasch Twayne Publishers, 1972 and Melvin B. Tolson's Harlem Gallery: A Literary Analysis by Mariann Russell U. of Missouri Press, 1980