[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. DAY, Helen Caldwell (1926-2013). Color, Ebony. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1952. 8vo. 182 pp. Publisher's full green cloth, spine lettered in black, publisher's unclipped ("$2.25" with later price in pencil near printed price) dust jacket. FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY ABOUT HER STRUGGLES WITH RACISM, HER BECOMING A NURSE, AND HER CONVERSION TO CATHOLICISM. Uncommon in jacket.

Jacket taped to cloth binding at flaps and boards, some toning, rubbing to binding, endleaves toned, offset with tape residue, text toned; jacket spine toned, jacket generally toned, rubbed, soiled (tape appears to be on plastic jacket cover rather than the jacket itself), previous owner's label on rp. Good.