Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 750 - $ 1,000
(BUSINESS--WASHINGTON, D.C.) HILYER, ANDREW F., compiler and editor. The Twentieth Century Union League Directory. A Compilation of the Efforts of the Colored People of Washington for Social Betterment... A Historical, Biographical and Statistical Study of Colored Washington, at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century and after a Generation of Freedom. Illustrated. 173 pages. Tall 8vo, original red cloth, stamped in gilt; extremities rubbed with some loss of cloth; contemporary signature of James H. Washington, 1526 Pierce Place, NW on the front free end-paper. Washington: Union League, 1901

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first edition of the first such guide. In addition to functioning as a business guide, the Directory provides a great deal of historical information: "The first colored druggist," "The first colored lawyer in Washington," etc. An excellent resource.