Out of the Darkness or Diabolism and Destiny
Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1909. 1st ed. Hardcover. 316p. Original maroon cloth. 20cm. Front endpaper split along hinge and reinforced with the front cover flattened causing the front cover to protrude along fore-edge. Backstrip reinforced at ends with chipped original cloth glued down. Loss of cloth at cover corners which appaear to have been stiffened by regluing. Cover scuffing and spotting. Internally sound with scattered foxing and spotting. No Jacket. Rare early novel by an African American lawyer from Nashville. Among the main African American characters in the book are three young men who becaome a doctor, a lawyer and a minister. The doctor is lynched for his emergeny treatment of an injured white woman. The lawyer ends up happily married and thriving professionally within the segregated society. We' are not sure what happens to the minister. Good. Item #75410
Price: $750.00