first edition Hardcover
1948 · Dallas
by GILBERT, Don
Dallas: Don Gilbert / Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 356pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Red cloth printed in black. Modest fraying at the extremities of the cloth, front hinge a touch tender, about very good, and internally near fine. A rare and highly informative city guide for the African-American citizens of Dallas in the post-War years. Edited and published by Don Gilbert, who also published *Applause*, a Dallas-based African-American magazine beginning in 1933, this was the second and last Dallas directory, and the only one published by Gilbert who herein thanks the "zealous (truncated)