Sketches of Southern Life (Schomburg SC Rare 811-H) (Q1786)

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Copy of 1896 Ferguson Bros. and Co. Edition, SC Rare 811- H
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Sketches of Southern Life (Schomburg SC Rare 811-H)
Copy of 1896 Ferguson Bros. and Co. Edition, SC Rare 811- H

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    library binding spine transcription: HARPER - SKETCHES OF SOUTHERN LIFE 811 H
    29 additional blank pages inserted between original paper cover and the back library hardcover, fills rebound cover
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    library rebound the original paper cover inside the hardcover binding.
    original cover transcription: SKETCHES | OF | SOUTHERN LIFE. | BY | FRANCES E. WATKINS HARPER. | [decorative rule] | Philadelphia: | FERGUSON BROS. & CO., PRINTERS, No. 15 North Seventh Street. | 1896. [dotted border with four ornate embellishments at each corner, inside another double-ruled order]
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    15 https://blackbibliog.rutgers.edu/entity/Q61
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    10 https://blackbibliog.rutgers.edu/entity/Q61
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    book in disrepair. original paper over through page 18 fully detached from binding. pages 20-34 partially torn from binding. seems that rebinding and wear/tear might have severed pages at the new suture.
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    NYPL Research Libraries [barcode] 3 3433 07621318 6
    front cover
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    The Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection | [illustration of an open book with black and white wings] | The New York Public Library | Astor, Lenox and Tilden | Foundations [surrounded by vine border]
    front endpaper
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    NYPL SCRBC surrounded by square border
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    "SCHOMBURG COLLECTION" in black ink
    inside original (paper) front cover
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    perforated stamp "NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY"
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    B594120 in red ink
    overwritten and struck through in black ink, 885338
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    "811 H B885338 Harper Sketches of Southern Life"
    handwritten in black ink
    front end paper
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    "811.08 P"
    handwritten in black ink, ".08 P" scratched through with pencil
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    "H"
    handwritten in blue ink
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    "885338"
    handwritten in black ink, overwriting red stamp B594120
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