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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Four volumes bound in red-brown cloth with gilt titles on spine. Boards show some wear, marks, edgewear. Corners are bumped and scuffed. Spines have gilt text and are darkened with bumped ends. Foot end of V.3, V.4 show marks. See photos. Bindings are strong. Pastedowns and feps have some light foxing, toning, binder's label, owner mark at front pastedown. See photos. Frontispiece, a color plate, is present and has intact tissue guard. Illustrations are bright and clear, with scattered foxing on reverse. Interior is gently age-toned, with scattered foxing. See photos. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges are lightly foxed.** PS2023.0809** 2121 pages. 9.5 x 12 inches** A complete set of William Leon Dawson's Birds of California, DeLuxe format, the first edition of 1923. Sturdy cloth covers house the encyclopedic contents, with the subtitle "A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 580 Species and Subspecies of Birds Found in the State." With many illustrations, among which are 110 full-page color plates by Major Allan Brooks. A monumental, decade-long undertaking, this set was published by subscription.** Signed by author following the half-title page.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #009762"**. Major Allan Brooks; Donald R. Dickey; Wright M. Pierce; William L. Finley (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. "More than seventy-five years ago Abraham Lincoln freed the American Negro from physical slavery. His mission was not to save us from mental slavery - inferiority complex - a lack of appreciation of our ability - our powers, our opportunities. This task of working out our destiny, our success, was left to us. In these seventy-five years and more, we have progressed far toward the goal of full, complete, American citizenship - an effective citizenship, damned and cursed by the greatest of all hindrances to progress - an inferiority complex within ourselves, both as to our racial and individual abilities." - pages 15-16. xiv, 15-102 p. Black and white photographic frontispiece portait of author. Includes contributions from several additional sources/authors. Styles also wrote "Negroes and The Law" in 1937. Former library copy with usual markings. Sturdily rebound in olive buckram. A sound copy of this early black American self-help book.; 12mo.…