Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 445

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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MILITARY--SPANISH AMERICAN WAR.) FLIPPER, LIEUT. HENRY OSSIAN. The Colored Cadet at West Point. Frontispiece and additional illustration. 322 pages, 8vo, original gilt-pictorial blue cloth; extremities rubbed with loss of cloth; a couple of signatures sprung. New York: Homer Lee, 1878
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scarce first edition of the autobiography of henry Ossian flipper (1856-1940), the third black cadet at west point, but only the first to graduate.