Ethiopia, the Land of Promise

by Adams Clayton

$4,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: The Cosmopolitan Press, 1917. First edition of this very scarce novel by an African American author about romance, white bigotry, violence and lynching in the American South. Bound in publisher's original purple cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good with cloth a bit stained, lightly rubbed, and former owner's name to front paste down. Scarce. Item #140943079

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