Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 336

Price Realized: $ 330
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MEDICINE.) SPENCER, GERALD A. Cosmetology in the Negro. Copious illustrations from photographs. Small 8vo, original cloth. An exceptional copy in the original pictorial dust jacket. New York [For the author], 1944
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first edition, inscribed and signed by the author "To my old [?] dear friend." From the library of Howard graduate and dentist, Edward A. Collymore. An extraordinary book, discussing and illustrating the various skin disorders common to the African American. A very scarce book, self-published by the author, who was a member of the New York Academy of Medicine.