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(JUVENILE.) Floyd, Silas X. The New Floyd's Flowers. Short Stories for Colored People, Young and Old. Greatly Revised and Enlarged by Mrs. Alice H. Howard. Frontispiece and copious illustrations. 8vo, pictorial red cloth, rubbed; contemporary

(JUVENILE.) Floyd, Silas X. The New Floyd's Flowers. Short Stories for Colored People, Young and Old. Greatly Revised and Enlarged by Mrs. Alice H. Howard. Frontispiece and copious illustrations. 8vo, pictorial red cloth, rubbed; contemporary presentation on front pastedown. Washington, D.C.: Austin Jenkins Co., (1922) E250/350 Essentially a racial "uplift" book, with brief biographical sketches of such people as "Blind Tom" Bethune, and stories showing evils and temptations of the world; posed with photographs of imaginary people in such situations. Schomburg Collection, Sc 170-F; Blockson Collection 8763 (1905 edition).

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