Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century

by Mifflin Wistar: Booker T. Washington Gibbs, Introduction

$12,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Washington, DC: Published by the Author, 1902. First edition, first printing. Signed by M. W. Gibbs on the verso of the first blank with a lengthy handwritten inscription to William Knowles Cooper, then General Secretary of the YMCA. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt. The extremely scarce publisher's promotional broadside for this title is tipped-in at the front pastedown. Very Good, cloth lightly rubbed,

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