The Story of Little Black Sambo

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1900. Boards. Very good. [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR] [RACIST CARICATURES]. American edition of the Dumpy Book. 24mo (5 ¾” x 4 1/8”); 56pp; illustrated boards, Sambo holding an umbrella inside an oval on front, lettering in black; green cloth shelf back; printer’s error on last page of Preface “exactly”; fp + 26 full page color illustrations; tight binding; wear to boards, light staining, light fingermarks on pages, some cracking of hinge paper; very good minus. The Preface announces that this is a Dumpy Book, and the “pictures copied as exatcly [sic] as possible.” An uncorrected printer’s error in this copy published (truncated) around 1900, the first Dumpy Book in which color illustrations by electrotype accompanied the text. Barton p108 & 116.

The illustrations are reproductions of Bannerman’s original primitive-style sketches of Black Indians, many with exaggerated lips, wooly hair, and large eyes. (Inventory #: 1676)