(LITERATURE) Ellis Book Store Catalog

Sale 2663 - Lot 284

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(LITERATURE.) Ellis' Book Store Catalog. 16 pages. Original printed wrappers, 6½ x 4¾ inches, manuscript notes on rear wrapper, minimal wear; faint vertical fold, two books marked in pencil. Chicago, June 1966

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Catalog for a Chicago bookstore owned by Curtis Ellis (1927-2010), with sections on "History--Social Studies," "Biographies," "Poetry, Art, Drama, Plays, Essays," "Fiction & General Reading," "African Literature," and "Children's Books." The scope of Black literature from Phillis Wheatley to Malcolm X is represented. The front wrapper bears a quote from Harlem Renaissance historian Charles Seifert: "A race without the knowledge of its history . . . is like a tree without roots." None traced in OCLC or at auction.