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A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas
by JACKSON, A.W
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Houston, Texas: A.W. Jackson, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Preface by Sanderson Alexander Pleasants, Jr. Biographical Sketch of the Author by Albert Anderson Lucas. Octavo. Vi (index), [6], 644, [4]pp. Illustrated from photographs. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Touch of wear at the edges of the boards, hint of toning at the page ends and some darkening to the glue at the pastedowns, very good copy of a cheaply produced book.
Extensive biographical compilation of perhaps 200 prominent black Texans, most with grainy photographic portraits, interspersed with hints to success and a fair amount of poetry, some or most of it obviously written by African-Americans (although some of it is author unidentified). According to the biography of the author, Andrew Webster Jackson, was born in Booth in Fort Bend County, Texas, completed school and became a teacher and later a school principal. In 1930 he was elected president of the Colored Teachers' State Association, and other important civic positions, and helped form the Fort Bend Fraternal Undertaking Company.
A highly eccentric publication with several different paginations, but all uncommon. This is a particularly nice copy.
Extensive biographical compilation of perhaps 200 prominent black Texans, most with grainy photographic portraits, interspersed with hints to success and a fair amount of poetry, some or most of it obviously written by African-Americans (although some of it is author unidentified). According to the biography of the author, Andrew Webster Jackson, was born in Booth in Fort Bend County, Texas, completed school and became a teacher and later a school principal. In 1930 he was elected president of the Colored Teachers' State Association, and other important civic positions, and helped form the Fort Bend Fraternal Undertaking Company.
A highly eccentric publication with several different paginations, but all uncommon. This is a particularly nice copy.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 458122
- Title
- A Sure Foundation & A Sketch of Negro Life in Texas
- Author
- JACKSON, A.W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A.W. Jackson
- Place of Publication
- Houston, Texas
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- TexasAuthor/Interest, African-Americana, Biography, Poetry, WesternAmericana
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-Americana; Poetry;
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