Popo and Fifina; Children of Haiti by Arna Bomtemps and Langston Hughes. INSCRIBED BY ARNA BONTEMPS

Popo and Fifina; Children of Haiti by Arna Bomtemps and Langston Hughes. Macmillan, NY 1941. Illustrated with Black & White drawings by E. Simms Campbell. Orange cloth, black lettering to the cover. 100 pages. Not Ex-Library, Not Facsimile, Not Print on Demand.INSCRIBED BY ARNA BONTEMPS - "With best wishes/of/Arna Bontemps/Fisk(?)/4 January '44"THe book has wear to the extremities, in some places to the cardboard. The cover is discolored and soiled. Inside,the endpapers are age toned both front and back. There is an old bookseller's pencil price on the first blank page. Other than already mentioned, there are no previous owner markings of any kind. The pages themselves are flat with no folds or dog-earing. There are some spots of staining on some of the pages (pp34-36) and there is a small stain on the leading edges of the pages. Binding is tight and firm with no signs of looseness. Arnaud "Arna" Wendell Bontemps ( 1902 – 1973)[1] was an African-American poet, novelist and libraria