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[AFRICAN AMERICAN]. A group of 10 titles related to African...

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[AFRICAN AMERICAN]. A group of 10 titles related to African American history or literature. [V.p., 1919-1969]. 8vos. Publisher?s cloth bindings (cloth bindings generally worn and soiled- one title in chipped wrappers), 7 titles in dust jacket (somewhat rubbed). FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS. Titles include: Up from Slavery (reprint); Know This of Race; Harlem Negro Metropolis; Victory Through Education (wrappers); Stranger and Alone; A King?s Story (about The Duke of Windsor); The Wild Place; Selected Poems of Langston Hughes; Black Cargoes; The Musical Bride. Many with bookplate of Claude Albert Barnett (1889-1967), the founder of the Associated Negro Press. From the collection of the Barnett family.