Gene's Books, member IOBA
Seller Rating: 5
Location: Stafford, KS
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Ex-School Library. 8vo-9" x 6" Signed & Inscribed By Author Blue boards, blue cloth backstrip, [...]
Ex-School Library. 8vo-9" x 6" Signed & Inscribed By Author Blue boards, blue cloth backstrip, metallic red-stamped lettering on spine, tan endpapers, xvii, 205pp plus biographical sketch of author, source notes, bibliography, index, illustrated throughout with historic photographs, including frontis. photo taken in the late 1870s of black people picking cottom, frontis. map of Mississippi. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page to "Inman [Kansas] Grade School Library--Keep Reading! ! ! " dated 3/93. Book is square & tight, spine ends & front corners lightly bumped 'though corners are sharp, text is quite bright; minimal ex lib markings with small tape tab adhesive residue on boards top & bottom, small stamp on endpapers & pocket affixed to back free endpaper. Dust jacket is wholly intact and nearly flawless with exception of security label adhesive residue on back panel, protected in a new Gaylord-brand archival clear plastic cover (removable). From the dust jacket: "Writing with passion and control, the Coretta Scott King Award-winning author...presents the history of African Americans in Mississippi in a major, two-part work of nonfiction. "
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$28.13
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