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(MILITARY—SPANISH AMERICAN WAR.) FLIPPER, LIEUT. HENRY
OSSIAN.
The Colored Cadet at West Point.
Frontispiece and additional illustration.
322 pages, 8vo, original gilt-pictorial blue cloth; extremities rubbed with loss of cloth; a
couple of signatures sprung.
New York: Homer Lee, 1878
[700/1,000]
SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HENRY
O
SSIAN FLIPPER
(1856-
1940),
THE THIRD BLACK CADET AT WEST POINT
,
BUT ONLY THE FIRST TO GRADUATE
.
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