Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -

Sale 2697 - Lot 305

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(PERIODICALS.) Issue of "The Colored American Review: A Magazine of Inspiration." Volume 1, no. 5. 28 pages. Quarto, 12 x 9½ inches, lacking front wrapper, with rear wrapper detached; minor wear and dampstaining, light vertical fold. New York: Colored American Review Co., January 1916
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On the staff were contributing editor John Edward Bruce, a.k.a. "Grit" (see also next lot); business manager E. Toussant Welcome (brother-in-law of James Van Der Zee). The first half of the magazine includes a cover article on "The Negro and the Coming War" and extensive tributes to the late Booker T. Washington. Some illustrations are found throughout, but pages 13-16 are a centerfold "Pictorial Supplement" with portraits of entertainers such as J. Rosamond Johnson and Aida Overton Walker. This is followed by extensive coverage of New York's theater scene.

OCLC lists only one holding of this substantial magazine, at Yale University: issues 6 and 7, immediately following this one. None traced at auction.

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