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Lot 6
Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022
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Live / Philadelphia
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1,200
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$6,930
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Lot Description
[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.