Diane, Priestess of Haiti [complete novel in] Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, April 1902

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1902.

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Softcover. First and apparently only edition published in the 20th Century. Small chips on the front wrap, and modest erosion at the bottom of the spine, a very good copy. This issue contains the only appearance of a complete novel by the African-American author. The novel features a separate title page, prints the author’s name and the title on the spine, and takes up a significant portion of the magazine (80 of the issue’s 128 pages, with the remainder mostly comprising advertisements). Durham (1861-1919), born in Pennsylvania, was the assistant editor of *The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin*. In 1891 he was named U.S. Charge d’Affaires to Santo Domingo and U.S. Minister to Haiti, an office that he served in until 1893. This novel was not published elsewhere to our knowledge. Individual copies of this issue of the magazine are very uncommon with *OCLC* locating just six copies. Only the second copy we've handled.

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Item #443979 Diane, Priestess of Haiti [complete novel in] Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, April 1902. John Stephens DURHAM.