Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 276

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(LITERATURE.) Sutton E. Griggs. Unfettered: A Novel. 276 pages. Octavo, 7¾ x 5¼ inches, worn, coming detached from text block; lacking free endpapers, hinges split, moderate foxing and wear; early owner's signature on front flyleaf. Nashville, TN: Orion Publishing, 1902

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A novel by a Baptist minister and supporter of W.E.B. Du Bois, printed by his own publishing company. From the preface: "It is the aim of Unfettered to lead the reader into the inner life of the Negro race and lay bare the aspirations that are fructifying there." Bound with the sequel, "Dorlan's Plan, A Dissertation on the Race Problem." None traced at auction. Margolies, Afro-American Fiction 245.