Estimate: $600 - $700
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Offered for sale by Peter Austern Of 'Brooklyn Books' - for more information please contact him via email at info@brooklynbooks.us
Charles Fred WHITE.
Plea of the Negro Soldier & A Hundred Other Poems by Corporal Charles Fred White. 1908, 1st edition. Press of Enterprise Printing Company, Easthampton, Mass. Photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Blue cloth gilt. A collection of poems by an African-American who was Chaplain of Wesley S. Brass Camp No. 37, United Spanish War Veterans.
Many of the poems are on African-American themes, several on the experience of the black troops in Cuba.
Frontis, blank & title page repaired, else a nice copy of a very uncommon African-American book of poems. Domestic s&h $15.