Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 370

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MILITARY--WWI.) TOUSSAINT-WELCOME, MME., COMPILER AND EDITOR. A Pictorial History of the Negro in the Great World War 1917-1918. Frontispiece from a painting by the compiler-editor, full page photograph of James Reese Europe's band from the 15th Regiment of "Harlem Hell-Fighters," and numerous other sepia and half-tone illustrations from photographs. Large, oblong 4to, original cloth-backed stiff red wrappers, stapled; a couple of small damp spots; one at the top of the cloth on the front cover, and a few at the edges of the text. A lovely copy of a book usually found in deplorable condition because of its size and fragile production.

Additional Details

first edition. Includes articles by African-American politicians, scholars, educators, writers, and veterans. Including: Emmett Scott, Harrison Rhodes, Joseph Seamon Cotter, Lieutenant Osceola B. McKaine and others.