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TOBE
by Stella Gentry Sharpe, Charles Farrell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Kirkland, Washington, United States
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About This Item
121pp, Very Good. First edition/first printing from UNC Press 1939. No DJ. Orange cloth with blue lettering on cover and spine. Bumped top right corner, chipped at top of spine, previous owner name on ffep. The text block and images are as new (see all photos). With 62 photographs by Charles Ferrell.
This children's book about daily life on a working farm and other activities was written and photographed specifically for African-American children.
Stella Gentry Sharpe, a longtime teacher in the Hillsborough schools who lived with her husband on a farm just north of Chapel Hill, wrote the book in response to a question from an African-American boy who lived near her. The boy, Clay McCauley Jr., wanted to know why there were no children's books with boys that looked like him. Sharpe set out to prove McCauley wrong. A significant book with charming photographs and text.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Northwest
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2118
- Title
- TOBE
- Author
- Stella Gentry Sharpe, Charles Farrell
- Illustrator
- Charles Farrell
- Format/Binding
- Orange boards with blue lettering on cover and spine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition/first printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1939
- Pages
- 121
- Size
- 10" x 7.25"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- African-American Studies
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