(LITERATURE AND POETRY) BANNERMAN HELEN The Story of Little

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THE ORIGINAL CENTURY OLD DUST JACKETS (LITERATURE AND POETRY.) BANNERMAN, HELEN. The Story of Little Black Mingo * The Story of Little Black Quibba * The Story of Little Black Quasha * The Story of Little Black Sambo. Color illustrations. 54, 64, 57, 72 pp. uniform 12mo, original red cloth with insets of a color illustration from each book on the upper covers; all have their original pictorial dust jackets, with lists of other Bannerman titles on the rear panels; Little Black Quasha has a printed price of "75c" on the inner flap of the dust jacket; a few small chips. New York: Stokes, respectively: 1900, 1903, 1908, 1908

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first american editions of mingo, quibba and quasha, and an early printing of sambo; all with their original dust jackets. Curiously enough, Little Black Sambo, the book that started the entire series--and countless printings thereafter, was written about a little East Indian boy, not an African. The word "sambo" however does have its origins in west Africa, entering use in the New World via the Spanish colonies, where it was used to describe a person of mixed race. The author of all of these stories, Helen Bannerman was married to a British Colonial officer stationed in India. While he was off for long periods keeping the Raj safe, Mrs. Bannerman created these stories to entertain their little boy.