BEASLEY, Delilah L.

The Negro Trail Blazers of California: A Compilation of Records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library...

First edition. Yellow pictorial cloth. 317pp., frontispiece and numerous portraits. Foreword by Charlotte A. Bass. Boards a bit rubbed and soiled, and some light scattered foxing, still a very good plus copy of an increasingly scarce title. Laid in is a long handbill advertising the book with a review from The Grizzley Bear Magazine [sic], with a tear and chip affecting a few words at the fold. An impressive bit of research -- the author, as well as checking all of the standard sources, also checked hospital and poorhouse records, and interviewed African-American pioneers wherever she could find them.

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