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442

(WWI.) GERHART, GARY S., Editor.

History of the 19th Regiment. Field

Artillery Replacement Depot, Camp Jackson, S.C.

Illustrated throughout. 112 pages.

Oblong 4to, modern full green cloth with morocco spine label, signature and address of

one of the soldiers on the front free end-paper.

Columbia, S.C.: State Company, 1918

[600/800]

FIRST EDITION OF A SCARCE REGIMENTAL HISTORY

, written by its members. The 19th trained

replacements for troop losses abroad, as well as caring for huge numbers of victims of the terrible

influenza pandemic of 1918-1920. Camps like Jackson were needed to handle the sheer volume of sick,

dying and dead. The 19th also had a large “minstrel” troupe, illustrated at a centerfold on pages 69-70.

440

(WWI.) SCOTT, EMMETT J.

Scott’s Official History of the Negro

in the World War (salesman’s dummy).

Sample illustrations, text and order forms.

4to, original gilt pictorial red cloth.

Np, 1919

[250/350]

UNCOMMON

pre-publication salesman’s

“dummy” with sample pages of the text and

copious illustrations. The potential door-to-door

salesman is provided with all sorts of “pitches,”

in the form of “Sales Talk” at the front of the

book, and just in case he actually does sell a

copy there are ample pages of order forms at the

rear. Not in Arbour, Canvassing Books.

441

(WWI.) NEWKIRK, SHERMAN.

Three Comrades

(supplied title). Silver

print photograph of three African

American “doughboys,” 8 x 10 inches,

accompanied by a real photo post card,

made from the larger print; “3 copies,”

with a name and address in pencil on the

reverse of the post card.

Np, circa 1918-1919

[400/600]

A touching photograph of three friends in uni-

form, who in all likelihood enlisted together.

There were training programs like ROTC at

historically black colleges like Howard as early

as 1916. These three young men might well

have been part of such a program. The

Wilmington Light Infantry trained in

Wilmington, Delaware.

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