Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 298

Price Realized: $ 660
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(MILITARY--SPANISH AMERICAN WAR.) GUTHRIE, CHAPLAIN JAMES M. Camp-Fires of the Afro-American; or The Colored Man as a Patriot. 710 pages. Color frontispiece and numerous illustrations throughout. Royal 8vo, original gilt-decorative cloth; frontispiece tissue guard foxed, but plate clean; repair to spine; in all, a superior copy. Philadelphia: Afro-American Publishing Co, 1899

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first edition. One of the best such histories. Guthrie's older brother fought in the Civil War, and Guthrie himself saw service with the 9th and 10th Regiments during the Spanish-American War.