first edition Hardcover
1997 · Albany, NY
by Deveney, John Patrick; Franklin Rosemont (Foreword)
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. 607pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. The spine ends are lightly bumped and the spine is mildly toned. Moderate rubbing to the boards, particularly at the extremities. Moisture damage to pages 147-154. Sparse underlining in both pencil and ink. The first scholarly work on Paschal Beverly Randolph, who was among the first Black American novelists, an educator of Freedman during the Civil War, and an indispensable contributor to the addition of occult elements to spiritualism. Included is the full text of his two most important manuscripts on sexual (truncated)
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