[Cleveland, Ohio]: 1880.
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Unbound. First edition. 205pp. Lacking the wrappers with chips and creasing on the first few pages, and first two signatures detached but present thus fair only. Signed by the author, crossing out "Carpet Bagger" and writing above: "By John P. Green of the Cleveland Ohio Bar" and additionally Inscribed: "To T. Thomas Fortune Esq. From J.P.G." Fortune was a civil rights leader, editor of the African-American newspaper, *The New York Age*, and the editor and ghostwriter of Booker T. Washington's *The Story of My Life and Work*. Green was an African-American lawyer and politician, and one of the first African-Americans to hold public office in the state of Ohio. He later became Ohio's first African-American senator in 1892. A wonderful association between two notable and accomplished men.
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