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Wed, Sep 18, 2019 12:30AM EDT
Lot 601

Kemble?s Coons: A Collection of Southern Sketches.

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Kemble, Edward W. Kemble?s Coons: A Collection of Southern Sketches. New York: Robert Howard Russell, 1896. First edition. Publisher?s cloth-backed pictorial boards. Oblong 4to. Half-title with frontis. to verso, title page, followed by 30 pages of stereotypical illustrations of black children. Covers soiled and rubbed, small dampstain to lower margin of some leaves, not affecting images.