[CIVIL WAR, AMERICAN HISTORY, SIGNED BOOKS, AFRICAN AMERICANA] 

FRANKLIN, John Hope (Author) 

"THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION - The Dramatic Story of Lincoln's greatest Document..."  

Garden City. Doubleday & Co. 1963. First Edition.  Green cloth backed gray boards. Original pictorial dust jacket with some wear and minor losses as shown. Light stain to two preface pages as shown. Overall, very good.    

THIS COPY SIGNED BY NOTED AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORIAN JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN ON FFEP. 

This example was inscribed to Nicola Fowles, an African American woman living in Los Angeles during the 1930's - 70's who was a WPA costume artist, a civic activist and was married to one of the few African American soldiers KIA in theatre during WWII. Nicola was also an officer in an Los Angeles 'authors group' and readers rountables during the 1960's.  (we handled her larger archive some weeks prior)              

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