The Marrow of Tradition

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1901. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition, same date title page and copyright page. Very Good, cloth soiled with a larger spot of soiling front and rear covers, silver decorations dulled. From the collection and with the ownership printed signature of Henry R.(Rutherford) Butler, M.D. (1862-1931) at front paste down. Dr Rutherford was a highly respected physician and pharmacist who was a pioneer in medicine and health care for African-Americans during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He opened the first Black owned pharmacy in Georgia and was a (truncated) founding member of several African-American physicians organizations on local, state, and national levels. An important Association Copy of Charles W. Chesnutt's most important novel. . (Inventory #: 010377)