AFRICAN-AMERICAN from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

Richmond, Va.: Everett Waddey, 1889. . 12mo, printed pale green wappers, very slight age-toning to edges and spine, minute chipping to fore-edge of back cover FIRST EDITION of this very controversial work by a prominent Richmond businessman. Lewis Harvie Blair (1834Ð1916) was a banker, manufacturer and land-owner. He was extremely liberal and was ostracized in 1889 when he wrote… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1914]. . 8vo, green cloth, spine faded; gilt title on front cover and spine. FIRST EDITION; Moebs 514 (p. 169); Work p. 350 (citing, in error, publisher as Neale).Steward (1843-1924) was born in Gouldtown, Pennsylvania, one of the oldest African-American settlements in the state. He was ordained in the African American Episcopal… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Duffield & Company, 1921. . 8vo, maroon cloth, spine faded

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899. . 12mo, green cloth, two-inch separation over front hinge; spine faded; top inner back corner faded; several leaves carelessly opened; very few leaves with small marginal tears, not affecting text; top edge gilt. BAL 4925

New-York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1875. . 8vo, tan pebbled cloth, gilt; corners and extremities of spine worn with slight loss of cloth. Haynes 683. Second edition, first published the year before, this edition has a "Form of Bequest" at the end and was probably published as a fund-raiser. The two editions have separate HaynesÕ numbers