Tuskegee Alabama: Negro Year Book Publishing Company, 1925.
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Hardcover. First edition. Octavo 544pp. Original cloth. Pages browned, front hinge neatly repaired, light wear at the extremities, a sound, very good copy of a cheaply produced book. Laid in is a slip stating that "Owing to the work of the editor... [on] an extended and comprehensive Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America, no 1926-27 or 1927-28 edition of the Negro Year Book has been published..." and stating that information is being compiled for a future edition (Work completed his landmark bibliography in 1928). This copy Inscribed by the editor: "With the best wishes and esteem of the Editor, Monroe N. Work." Such inscribed copies are rare.
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