Carpe Diem Fine Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. Blair, Helen. 1st. Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. [iv], 183pp. Charcoal and chalk illustrations by Helen Blair. Red cloth covered boards; black titles to front board and spine; illustrated end papers; original illustrated dust jacket. Fine in near fine dustjacket (minor wear to extremities). Item #16798

Florence Crannell Means (1891-1980) was one of the first writers of juvenile literature to focus on minority groups. This book tells the story of Lilybelle Lawrence, who leaves her home in St. Helena and attends college at Tuskegee.

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