Feb 28, 2002 - Sale 1926

Sale 1926 - Lot 152

Price Realized: $ 374
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(DREW, CHARLES.) Autograph Book from Dunbar High School, class of 1921, containing a manuscript poem and the signature of Charles Drew, "I wish I were your teacup, of which you drink your tea, so that every time you take a sip, you take a kiss of me, Charles Drew." Small oblong 8vo, leatherette. (Washington, 1921)

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Charles Drew, though not a very good poet, turned out to be an extraordinary scientist, developing blood plasma and thus saving countless lives during World War II. The book is also signed by Angelina Grimke.<