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Parry, Thomas Wood When Daddy Was a Boy
Kansas City, MO Franklin Hudson Publishing Company 1907 First Edition Hardcover Fair Illustrated by H. Wood
Red decorative cloth binding with three head shots of young boys on front boards. Gift inscription, shaken, boards heavily worn, front hinge repair, many smudged pages. A novel in which a young father reminisces about his southern farm boyhood being raised by an African-American mammy and her family, who say such things to their former owner as "Lawsy! Mahs Ben, anybody'd think all these heah niggas still b'longed to you, jes like dey used to, an' you wasn't payin' us good wages an' us a-layin' aroun' heah a-eatin' up yo' co'n an' bacon an' bu'nin' yo' fiah-wood." Oy vey. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 280 pages
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40.00 USD
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