Description

Boards with moderate wear and discoloration. Spine slightly sunned. A bit of browning to endpapers. Former owner's name on first blank page. Rear pastedown with minor insect damage. ; Rare among the WPA guides, especially with DJ. Light blue buckram boards with dark blue lettering and spine lettering. Photogravures. Sponsered by the Hampton Institute. The Saturday Review writes: "This story of the Negro in Virginia, free from both bitterness and prejudice and equally free of sentimentality and pretentiousness, is not only one of the most significant books to come from the whole work of the Federal Writers' Project. It is also, I think, on of the most valuable contributions yet made to the Amerian Negro's history." (Jonathan Daniels). Schoyer 630 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii, 380 pages

Condizioni: very good-