A Nickel and A Prayer

(Cleveland: Parthenon Press / Elli Kani, 1940).

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Hardcover. Second printing (revised). Octavo. 211pp. Frontispiece portrait. Fine in bit soiled and spine-sunned else near fine dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author: "To Professor Stanley H. Chapman, In appreciation for your devoted interest in future leadership. Jane E. Hunter. March 1948." Autobiography of the founder of the Phillis Wheatley Association in Cleveland. A narrative of her early life in South Carolina, her education at Ferguson and Williams College, and her work as a nurse and social worker in South Carolina and Florida. Laid in is a single mimeographed handbill or small broadside with Hunter's poem "Others." The book turns up occasionally, but the small broadside appears to be unrecorded. *Brignano* 123.

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Item #423708 A Nickel and A Prayer. Jane Edna HUNTER.
A Nickel and A Prayer
A Nickel and A Prayer