Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 330
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(BIOGRAPHY.) Who's Who in Colored America. Compiled and edited by Joseph J. Boris. 333 pages. Profusion of portraits. Large, thick 4to, original gilt and blind-stamped red leatherette; extremities very lightly rubbed. New York, 1927

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first edition of the first year of this basic source. Invaluable to researchers, many of the entries here do not appear in subsequent biographical dictionaries such as the "Dictionary of American Negro Biography" (Logan) or "African-American Lives" (Gates and Higginbothom).