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Lot 357
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(African-Americana)...
(African-Americana) 6 Vols African American and African Subjects: Brown, Wm. Wells. The American Fugitive in Europe: Sketches of Places and People Abroad. Boston, 1855. First American edition. 12mo, original cloth; scuffed, some edge wear, corners and spine ends frayed. Frontispiece portrait. Some internal spotting and dust smudging, a few signatures just sprung. Sabin 8586. * Redpath, James. The Public Life of Capt. John Brown... Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860. First edition. 12mo, original cloth; light to moderate wear. Frontispiece portrait, 2 plates. Light foxing to frontispiece, but internally generally clean. Sabin 68528. * Dunbar, Paul Lawrence. Poems of Cabin and Field. New York: Dodd Mead, 1900. 8vo, original gilt-lettered and color decorated green cloth, top edges gilt; light wear, very slightly dusty. Illustrated. * Brooks, Charles H. Official History of the First African Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pa. Philadelphia, 1922. 8vo, original gilt-lettered green cloth; light wear. Full page, half tone illustrations. Internally generally clean. * Fauset, Jessie. Comedy American Style. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1933. First edition. 12mo, original Pictor orange cloth, top edge stained deep orange; light edge wear, slightly dusty. But attractive copy. * Cottrell, Kent. Sunburnt Sketches of Africa, South, East and West. In Pencil, Paint and Prose. Central News Agency, South Africa, (1955). Second printing. 4to, original color pictorial boards; light wear, dust jacket (some creasing and chipping at edges). Color plates, black and white illustrations throughout. Scattered light foxing, title and front matter discolored. Inscribed and signed by Kent Cottrell on title page.