Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted

by Frances E. W. Harper

$48,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Philadelphia: Garrigues Brothers, 1892. First edition, first printing of one of the first books written by an African American woman to be published in the United States. iv , 282 pp. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt.Very Good. Crudely repaired with spine ends glued down and cloth tape over hinges at endsheets. Hinge exposed after front free endpaper. Cloth worn and lightly soiled, shallow chipping

• Printing: first

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