(BUSINESS PENNSYLVANIA) HOWARD JAMES HW Pennsylvania Negro

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(BUSINESS--PENNSYLVANIA.) HOWARD, JAMES H.W. Pennsylvania Negro Business Directory, 1910. Illustrated. 157 pages. Tall 8vo, original red cloth, stamped in gilt; faint "tide-mark" to some pages; boards slightly discolored. Harrisburg: Jas. H. W. Howard & Son, (1909)

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first edition. An excellent resource. Contains many illustrated biograohies of noted African Americans, including a biographical sketch with a portrait of Madame C. J. Walker, who at this time lived in Pittsburgh. The publisher of this directory, James H.W. Howard, was also the author of "Bond and Free" (1886), the eighth novel by an African-American author.