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Rare and modern books

Langston, John Mercer

FROM THE VIRGINIA PLANTATION TO THE NATIONAL CAPITOL Or the First and Only Negro Representative in Congress from the Old Dominion

American Publishing Company, 1894

846.00 €

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(Westport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
1894
Place of printing
Hartford
Author
Langston, John Mercer
Publishers
American Publishing Company
Edition
First Edition
Keyword
Available Inventory African Americana
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Very Good
Languages
English
Binding
Hardcover
First edition
Yes

Description

Wear to extremities. Frontispiece taped to first blank page. Some pages of illustrations show open tears. Inkstamps to title page and last page. Ex-lib with stickers and inkstamp to front endpaper; Very scarce. Langston (1829-1897) was the first African-American to be elected to Congress from the state of Virginia. He was dean of the first black law school at Howard. Served in congress in 1890. Illustrated; Ex-Lib; B&W Illustrations