Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 282

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY (MILITARY.) A Pictorial History of the Negro in the Great World War 1917-1918. Edited by Mme Toussaint-Welcome. Frontispiece from a painting by the compiler/editor, full-page photograph of James Europe's band from the 15th regiment of "Harlem Hellfighters," and numerous other sepia-toned illustrations from photographs. Large, oblong 4to, original cloth-backed stiff red wrappers, stapled; a couple of tiny abrasion at top and bottom of the spine, otherwise a virtually pristine copy. New York: Toussaint Pictorial Company, 1919

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Includes articles by African-American politicians, scholars, educators, writers, and veterans, including Emmet Scott, Harrison Rhodes, Joseph Seamon Cotter, Lieutenant Osceola B. McKaine, a poem by Charles W. Alston, "Our First Industrial Heroes," by Charles Knight, and many others. OCLC locates only one copy.