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Lot 852
Sale 1047 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
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Jun 17, 2022
Lots Close
Jun 28, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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[WYATT, Addie (1924-2012), her copies]. JOHNSON, John H. (1918-2005). Succeeding Against the Odds. New York: Warner Books, 1989. Three copies, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED.
8vo. Photographic plates. Original blue cloth-backed boards; original pictorial dust jacket. Provenance: Addie and Charles S. Wyatt, Jr. (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY JOHNSON TO REVEREND CLAUDE S. WYATT, JR. to front free end paper. Two additional copies BOTH SIGNED BY JOHNSON. Johnson was the founder of Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago the publisher of Negro Digest, Ebony, and JET.
Addie Wyatt (1924-2012) was a civil rights activist and leader in the Labor movement, notably the first African American woman elected international vice president of a major labor union.