HOPPIN, Augustus

Two Compton Boys

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885. First Edition. First printing. Square octavo (21cm). Brown cloth, stamped in gold and darker brown; grey coated endpapers; 169, [7]pp; six pages of ads at rear, list of Hoppin works opposite title page; extensively illustrated with in-text wood engravings. Ex-library, with stamps and two bookplates from the Free Library of Edgewood, Rhode Island. Binding slightly loose, cloth rubbed, occasional fingersoil: Good.

An extensively illustrated story of the childhood and friendship of two boys, one white, one Black. Hoppin was and is better known as an illustrator than as an author.

Price: $75.00

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