CAPE TOWN DICKY, or Colonel Jack's Boy

by Theo Gift, Alice Havers, Ernest Wilson

$300 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

London; New York: Hildsheimer & Faulkner; Geo. C. Whitney, circa 1887 . Uncommon chromolithographic picture book detailing little Dicky's return to England from South Africa, revealing Victorian-era colonialist culture and racism. Very good plus. Item #49721 From referring to Dicky's Black African servant Usebi as a racial slur throughout the text to glorifying the British colonial cause, CAPE TOWN DICKY is a

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