CHRISTENSEN, A. M. H. Afro-American Folk-Lore Told round the Fires on the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Double frontispiece engravings. Small 8vo, original decorated tan cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine; small stains on both covers.

CHRISTENSEN, A. M. H. Afro-American Folk-Lore Told round the Fires on the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Double frontispiece engravings. Small 8vo, original decorated tan cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine; small stains on both covers. Boston: Cupples, (1892) E250/350 FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED to Elizabeth Hyde Botume in the year of publication. Botume wrote First Days Among the Contrabands (Boston, 1893), a narrative of her experiences as a teacher for the Freedman's Bureau beginning in 1864 in Beaufort, South Carolina. Schomburg Collection, Sc 398-J; Blockson Collection 853.