Story of the Negro / by Arna Bontemps ; illustrated by Raymond Lufkin
Object Details
- author
- Bontemps, Arna 1902-1973
- illustrator
- Lufkin, Raymond
- type designer
- Dwiggins, W. A (William Addison) 1880-1956
- inscriber
- Bontemps, Arna 1902-1973 DSI
- former owner
- Fedder, Alice N. DSI
- Beyah, Charles A. B. DSI
- publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- binder
- Kingsport Press
- "The text of this book is set in Caledonia, a linotype face designed by W.A. Dwiggins ... The book was composed, printed and bound by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee" --Colophon.
- Includes index.
- Newbery Honor Book, 1949.
- NMAFRB copy 39088019378470 is inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper: For Alice N. Fedder with best regards, Arna Bontemps, 15 July '48 Columbia.
- NMAFRB copy has autographs of former owners on the front endpaper: Alice N. Fedder; Property of Charles Beyah; with stamp on front paste-down endpaper: Collection of Charles A. Beyah.
- NMAFRB copy is the gift of Charles A.B. Beyah.
- NMAFRB copy has the publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt-stamped spine.
- Summary
- A history of the Negro race, from the early tribes of Africa and empire of Ethiopia, through the practice of slavery in many areas, especially the United States, to early twentieth century achievements of American Negroes.
- 1948
- Call number
- E29.N3 B72 1948
- Type
- Books
- History
- Physical description
- xii, 239, [2] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Black race--History
- African Americans
- Slavery--History
- Record ID
- siris_sil_1081835
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
