Large folio. 6 lithographs by Elizabeth Catlett. Original red cloth; publisher's slipcase.

LIMITED EDITION, number 121 of 400 copies, SIGNED BY CATLETT AND WALKER. For My People was first published in 1942 and that same year won Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, making its author the first African-American woman to win a national writing prize. Darlene Clark Hine once described it as "the most important collection of poetry written by a participant in the Chicago Black Renaissance..." Original newsletter tipped in.