Item #14515 The Romantic Adventures of Rosy, the Octoroon, with Some Account of the Persecution of the Southern Negroes during the Reconstruction Period. Albert Evander Coleman.

The Romantic Adventures of Rosy, the Octoroon, with Some Account of the Persecution of the Southern Negroes during the Reconstruction Period

Boston: Meador, (c. 1929). 1st ed. Hardcover. 121p. Original green cloth. dj. 20cm. Jacket has some edge-wear and streaky soiling. Minor adhesion on a two adjacent pages with loss of a few letters. The author of this earnest piece of fiction was long thought to be an African American -- authorship being attributed to *Anita Scott Coleman by many. It now seems almost certain that the author was a white man from Canada who worked as a journalist in New York. Very Good / Good. Item #14515

Price: $100.00

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