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Lot 6

Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022 5:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$800 - 1,200
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$6,930
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[African-Americana] Harper, Frances E.W. Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted

Philadelphia: Garrigues Brothers, 1893. Second edition. 8vo. (iv), 281, (1) pp. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait. Original teal blue cloth, stamped in gilt, boards lightly soiled; all edges trimmed; patterned endpapers; contemporary gift inscription on front blank.

A scarce edition of Frances E.W. Harper's 1892 novel, the third novel ever published by an African-American woman. A lovely, unsophisticated, example.

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