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Mary Church Terrell: Respectable Person
by Shepperd, Gladys Byram
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/very good
- Seller
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Baltimore: Human Relations Press, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Good/very good. Leslie Delaney, cover artist. Cloth binding, gilt embossed lettering on spine. Normal wear to top and bottom of spine. Minor water damage to last few pages. Two pages of appendix separated. Some foxing to top edge. Unclipped dust jacket. Leslie Delaney, cover artist. Inscribed to Patricia Harris, later secretary of HUD in Carter administration. "To Honorable Patricia Harris, Ambassador to Luxembourg, with best regards, Gladys B. Shepperd, February, 1966." Mary Church Terrell was a civil rights activist in Washington, DC.
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- Bookseller
- Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 111
- Title
- Mary Church Terrell: Respectable Person
- Author
- Shepperd, Gladys Byram
- Illustrator
- Leslie Delaney, cover artist
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Human Relations Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Civil Rights, African American, Women leaders, Washington, DC
Terms of Sale
Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2020
Atlanta, Georgia
About Toadlily Books, ABAA/ILAB
Member of ABAA/ILAB. On-line sales and the occasional book fair.
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- Inscribed
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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