Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 255

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(HISTORY.) Austin R. Martin. Famous Negroes of Alabama. [32] pages including original wrappers, 10¾ x 8¼ inches; minimal wear and light toning. No place, 1971

Additional Details

An attractively done comic book-style history with sections on "Negroes in colonial Alabama," Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, missionary Maria Fearing, Joe Louis, W.C. Handy, Jesse C. Owen, Satchel Paige, Henry Aaron, Willie Mays, Coretta Scott King, and many more, plus a timeline and puzzles. None found under this title in OCLC, although the University of Alabama has "Famous Alabama Blacks" with the same author, date and contents. None traced at auction.