Title: Charming Stories for Young and Old Author: Floyd, Silas X. Place: Washington, D.C. Publisher: Austin Jenkins Company Date: [1925] Description: 320 pp. (8vo) original red cloth. New edition "greatly revised and enlarged, with ABC’s Supplement by Mrs. Alice H. Howard” Though sub-titled “for young and old”, this collection of stories was clearly aimed at African-American children, for whom few books of non-racist content were written until some twenty years later. The “Negro Authors” are not identified, and it’s possible that most of the stories were written by Floyd himself, a Baptist Minister who wrote children’s stories for a variety of periodicals. This may be the first such anthology to appear, as the first edition was published in 1905 under the title “Floyd’s Flowers”, while Floyd was working as an editor of “The Voice of the Negro”, one of the earliest Black literary journals of the 20th century. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear and soiling to cloth; very good. Item number: 228776
Title: Charming Stories for Young and Old Author: Floyd, Silas X. Place: Washington, D.C. Publisher: Austin Jenkins Company Date: [1925] Description: 320 pp. (8vo) original red cloth. New edition "greatly revised and enlarged, with ABC’s Supplement by Mrs. Alice H. Howard” Though sub-titled “for young and old”, this collection of stories was clearly aimed at African-American children, for whom few books of non-racist content were written until some twenty years later. The “Negro Authors” are not identified, and it’s possible that most of the stories were written by Floyd himself, a Baptist Minister who wrote children’s stories for a variety of periodicals. This may be the first such anthology to appear, as the first edition was published in 1905 under the title “Floyd’s Flowers”, while Floyd was working as an editor of “The Voice of the Negro”, one of the earliest Black literary journals of the 20th century. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear and soiling to cloth; very good. Item number: 228776
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