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THE CONQUEST: The Story of a Negro Pioneer. By the Pioneer.

Micheaux, Oscar (1884-1951)

Lincoln, NE: Woodruff Press, 1913. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Very good- condition. Item #8264baY1

311 pages. Meaures 19.8cm. Hardcover: original gray cloth binding, soiled, spine crimped; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Second edition. Minor staining to a few page edges and margins. Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of author and 15 illustrations. Author was a pioneer of black cinema, beginning in the silent era and continuing into the 1940's, mostly for ghetto audiences. Afro-American novel; South Dakota.

Price: $850.00