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Lot 379

[MINSTRELSY]. Group of 3 Children’s Books with Racial Stere...

Estimate: $150 - $250

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[MINSTRELSY]. Group of 3 Children?s Books with Racial Stereotypes, including: HALBERTSMA, Ida and BACKER, Julie Bas Backer. Van Eeen with Negertje. [Amsterdam: J. H. de Bussy, 1929]. Oblong 4to. Illustrated with 6 stereotype cartoons. Original red boards, printed paper label on front board (worn, soiled, text block detached from boards). Good. And 10 Kleine Nikkertjes.. [n.p., n.d.]. 10 fold-out color pages, original wrappers (worn, soiled, pages loose). Fair. And GUNN, George W. The Adventures of Rufus Rastus Brown in Darktown. Chicago: J. I. Austen, Co., [1906]. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Illustrated with color cartoons and black and white photographic plates of African-American children. Original wrappers (wrappers worn, soiled, some marginal tears, chips, pages edgeworn). Fair.