Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 270

Unsold
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) FOWLER, CHARLES H. Historical Romance of The American Negro. 269 pages. Double portrait frontispiece of the author and "Beulah Jackson," the heroine of his novel. Tall 8vo, original maroon cloth, extremities lightly rubbed with some minor loss of cloth. Baltimore: Thomas and Evans, 1902

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first edition. A history of the Negro race in the form of "an historical romance," as told in the voice of a woman named Beulah Jackson. Fowler''s romance is enhanced by copious illustrations with both real and imagined scenes of characters in the novel. Prints a 1902 letter of Theodore Roosevelt, "Color no bar to office." Blockson, 9510.