{"id":228,"date":"2020-01-13T13:22:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T18:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/?page_id=228"},"modified":"2025-02-04T14:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:31:22","slug":"other-gems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/home\/other-gems\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Gems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b2a32787f0f80e3fb6f27e4432a8d2b1\">Maya Angelou, 1928-2014<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water \u2018Fore I Die<\/em>. New York: Random House, 1971. First edition.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Maya Angelou\u2019s first published collection of poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-49d38b7a8db30768b1ecee40cd62ab8e\">James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>God\u2019s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse<\/em>. New York: Viking Press, 1927.&nbsp;First edition. Author\u2019s autograph presentation copy. Inscribed to Alice Dunbar-Nelson. From the library of Alice Dunbar-Nelson.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e56d7dcc769d132baf941feb4dcea6eb\">Ralph Ellison, 1914-1994<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Invisible Man.<\/em>&nbsp;New York: Random House, 1952. First edition. Author\u2019s autograph presentation copy. Inscribed for Barrie Stavis.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-11a5f581ba200db5be820abfebceba5f\">Langston Hughes, 1902-1967<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Scottsboro Limited: Four Poems and a Play in Verse. New York: Golden Stair Press, 1932. First edition. Author\u2019s autograph presentation copy, inscribed to Julian Bagley.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] Maya Angelou, 1928-2014 Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water \u2018Fore I Die. New York: Random House, 1971. First edition. Maya Angelou\u2019s first published collection of poetry. [UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM] James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938 God\u2019s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. New York: Viking Press, 1927.&nbsp;First edition. Author\u2019s autograph presentation copy. Inscribed to Alice Dunbar-Nelson. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":127,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-228","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228\/revisions\/315"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}