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(LITERATURE AND
POETRY.) HARPER,FRANCES
E. W.
Iola Leroy, or Shadows
Uplifted.
Portrait frontispiece. 282
pages. 8vo, original teal blue cloth,
lettered in gilt on the upper cover
and spine.A superior copy.
Philadelphia: Garrigues Brothers,
1893
[800/1,200]
SECOND EDITION
,
SCARCE
.
Frances
EllenWatkins Harper (1825-1911),
writer, poet, journalist and activist,
wrote her first work, a collection of
poetry in 1845. Published in a very
small number, it has unfortunately
been lost. Her second book, Poems on
Miscellaneous Subjects was published
in 1854 and went through 20 more
printings before the end of the 19th
century. She wrote nine other books,
mostly poetry and finished her novel,
Iola Leroy at the age of 67. Margolies
and Bakish, page 254.
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) HILL, LESLIE PINCKNEY.
Toussaint
L’Ouverture, a Dramatic History.
138 pages. 8vo, original cloth in a dust jacket with
a few small chips.
Boston: Christopher House, (1928)
[350/500]
FIRST EDITION
,
INSCIRBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT FREE END
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PAPER
;
“To ClementineTalfourd Allen from Leslie Pinckney Hill, (?) Pa.1/7/29.” An epic
poem on the life and death of Haiti’s liberator.
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(LITERATURE.) HOWARD, JAMES H.W.
Bond and Free, aTrueTale of Slave
Times.
280 pages. Small 8vo, original green cloth with title in gilt on the spine.
Harrisburg, James Howard, 1886
[600/800]
FIRST EDITION
,
SECOND ISSUE
, [
NO FRONTISPIECE
]
OF THE NINTH NOVEL BY AN
A
FRICAN
A
MERICAN AUTHOR
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James Howard, author, activist, and journalist was also the
publisher of Howard’s Negro American Magazine.
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) HUGHES, LANGSTON AND ROY DE
CARAVA.
The Sweet Flypaper of Life.
98 pages. Small 8vo, original pictorial stiff
wrappers with the text beginning on the front over. A better than average copy.
NewYork, [1955]
[600/800]
FIRST EDITION
,
SOFT
-
COVER ISSUE
.
A wonderful collaboration between Hughes and
photographer Roy de Carava.The unusual design of the book has the text beginning on the
front cover and numbered, confusingly, “page 3.”
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