Black Americana Vintage Children Book Effie Lee Newsome Harlem Renaissance 1940

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Gladiola Garden, hard cover with jacket by Effie Lee Newsome, The Associated Publishers, 1940, appears first edition with 167 pages. From the author’s Wiki page: “was a Harlem Renaissance writer. She mostly wrote children's poems, and was the first famous African-American poet whose work was mostly in this area. She edited a column in The Crisis from 1925 until 1929, called "The Little Page", where she made drawings and wrote poetry for children and parables about being young and black in the 1920s. Newsome also illustrated for children's magazines and edited children's columns for Opportunity. She also wrote poems for adults, which were included in The Poetry of the Negro (1949) …”