Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 340

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
SCARCE JOEL AUGUSTUS ROGERS ITEM (RACE HISTORY). ROGERS, JOEL AUGUSTUS. Your History, From the Beginning of Time to the Present. Entirely illustrated by George Lee from the columns by Rogers and Lee originally appearing in the Pittsburgh Courier. Large 4to, original printed stiff wrappers; very slightly rubbed. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Courier, 1940

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first and only edition. Scarce promotional book offered as an inducement to subscribe to the Pittsburgh Courier. "Each of these pages has appeared in The Pittsburgh Courier over a period of years and is here reproduced as it appeared. Students, teachers and parents have urged us from time to time to publish these features in book form. This has now been done and this newspaper is glad to be able to offer the book free of charge to all new subscribers. . .Copies of this book may be obtained only by the Pittsburgh Courier subscribers. They are not sold separately."