Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 216

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(BUSINESS.) WALKER, MADAME C. J. The Madam C. J. Walker Beauty Manual. Copious illustrations. 211 pages, plus advertisements and index at rear. 8vo, original blue cloth, lettered in white; blue cloth somewhat blotchy, spine extremities frayed; internally clean. Ownership signature. Indianapolis, [1928]

Additional Details

first edition, rare. OCLC dates this first edition 1928, and only locates five copies. A second edition was issued in 1940.