Ideals and Adventures (The Negro American Series Book Four)

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A first edition, first printing hardcopy of the Ideals and Adventures (Negro American Series) by Emma E. Akin. The front cover is a green and features a large illustration of an open book with figures emerging from between the pages. The figures include a male painter, a woman wearing a shawl and bonnet, a man in a tricorn hat poised to throw an object, a woman holding an alphabet instruction book, a little girl, and a doctor and nurse. Below the illustration is the title and author printed in black in block text that reads: [IDEALS AND ADVENTURES / EMMA E. AKIN]. The top two thirds of the book spine has the series name and number printed vertically in black text that reads: [Book Four NEGRO AMERICAN SERIES]. The bottom third of the spine is the publisher’s information, printed vertically in black ink, [Harlow]. The back cover is blank.

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