ODUM, Howard. Wings on My Feet: Black Ulysses at the Wars. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. 1929. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in yellow to the spine and front board, in the dust jacket, a vivid wraparound design which goes uncredited. A very good copy. The cloth clean though a trifle sunned at extremities, the binding tight and square. With striking endpapers repeating the jacket design. The contents fine throughout without stamps, inscriptions, or foxing. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50 net), several very small nicks to extremities and some gentle rubbing in places, the titles to spine a touch faded.
A smart example of the second of three novels by the important sociologist and folklorist. One of the few depictions of African Americans in the First World War, it follows Black Ulysses, John Wesley ‘Tiger’ Gordon, ‘unloading ship, digging trenches, carrying ammunition, burying the dead, clearing away the wire, fighting and killing’ written with considerable readability in the spontaneous folk language so faithfully set down by the author of some twenty or so volumes on the African American experience, culture, and language. In his obituary, the American Sociological Association—of whom he was President—praised his efforts towards social change: ‘he was the founder, president or administrative officer in about a dozen national, regional or state commissions or councils dealing with interracial cooperation, relief, public welfare, civil works, planning and regional programs’. He was also, to his own mystical end, the breeder of bulls. An uncommon title in the rare dust jacket.
ODUM, Howard. Wings on My Feet: Black Ulysses at the Wars. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. 1929. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in yellow to the spine and front board, in the dust jacket, a vivid wraparound design which goes uncredited. A very good copy. The cloth clean though a trifle sunned at extremities, the binding tight and square. With striking endpapers repeating the jacket design. The contents fine throughout without stamps, inscriptions, or foxing. The dust jacket unclipped ($2.50 net), several very small nicks to extremities and some gentle rubbing in places, the titles to spine a touch faded.
A smart example of the second of three novels by the important sociologist and folklorist. One of the few depictions of African Americans in the First World War, it follows Black Ulysses, John Wesley ‘Tiger’ Gordon, ‘unloading ship, digging trenches, carrying ammunition, burying the dead, clearing away the wire, fighting and killing’ written with considerable readability in the spontaneous folk language so faithfully set down by the author of some twenty or so volumes on the African American experience, culture, and language. In his obituary, the American Sociological Association—of whom he was President—praised his efforts towards social change: ‘he was the founder, president or administrative officer in about a dozen national, regional or state commissions or councils dealing with interracial cooperation, relief, public welfare, civil works, planning and regional programs’. He was also, to his own mystical end, the breeder of bulls. An uncommon title in the rare dust jacket.
