Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 143

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(BUSINESS.) DABNEY, WENDELL PHILLIPS. Cincinnati's Colored Citizens. Historical, Sociological and Biographical. Copiously illustrated from photographs. Small 4to, original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine; very slight wear with one corner bumped. Cincinnati: Dabney Publishing Co, (1926)

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first edition. inscribed on the front pastedowns "Miss Carrie Hill Johnson, best wishes of W. P. Dabney, 7/13/36." Wendell Phillips Dabney (1865-1952), "Writer, musician, journalist, protest leader, publisher and man of political influence." (Logan, Dictionary of American Negro Biography.) Dabney attended Oberlin, established a music school in Boston, worked with Frederick Douglass on the Emancipation Day Fair in Chicago in 1893, co-founded the Frederick Douglass political League, and was the first president of the Cincinnati branch of the NAACP.