Fugitives of the Pearl
Washington, D. C. The Associated Publishers, 1930.
First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in black. A review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Near Fine with toning to pages in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with minor chipping at the corners and spine ends. John H. Paynter was an African American writer of poetry and nonfiction. Fugitives of the Pearl is historical fiction, with a plot centering around one of the largest known mass escape attempts of enslaved people in the United States. Item #140943071
Price: $3,800.00
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