Ezekiel Travels
by Garner, Elvira
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-027: H. Holt and Company. Very Good. 1938. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Henry Holt And Company, New York. 1938. Unpaginated. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in illustrated paper covered cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn). Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Elvira Garner (18861956) was a 20th-century Florida author and watercolor illustrator. Her best-known children's book Ezekiel, published by Henry Holt in 1937, detailed the story of a black boy who lived in Sanford, Florida with his Mammy, Pappy and sister Emblematic of Florida when it was part of the Deep South, Ezekiel was written in African-American dialect, it was popular in its time, but fell out of favor when books like Little Black Sambo were labeled racist. Now highly collected as an artifact of black Americana and African American fiction. Ezekiel's type was drawn, with illustrations inserted into the type. EB; 9.1 X 6.4 X 0.4 inches .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61392
- Title
- Ezekiel Travels
- Author
- Garner, Elvira
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- H. Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- E-027
- Date Published
- 1938
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