Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 273

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) GROSS, WERTER. The Golden Recovery. 8x22 inch fold-out plan of an "independent rural community." 8vo, original red cloth, without dust jacket as issued. (Reno, 1946)

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first edition of this uncommon utopian novel by an african-american author. "Mr. Drew had learned of a young Negress, Mary Smith, who bore a considerable reputation as a scientifically trained children''s nurse . . . Neither the Drew family nor the Preston family had the slightest inkling of the important parts Mary Smith and especially her son Henry were to play in their future lives and indeed, in the future of America." Whiteman, A Century of Fiction by American Negroes, page 26.