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Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Edition. Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1949. First Edition. Small Quarto (28cm); illustrated dust jacket with $4.00 price intact; publisher's gray cloth boards with black lettering; x,100pp; illus. by James A. Porter throughout. Jacket edgeworn with some smudging and toning to surface, a couple waterspots along fore-edge, and some offset dampstaining to verso. Fairly heavy dampstaining and fading to boards along top- and fore-edge, not affecting interior. Binding sound and pages unmarked. A collection of African folktales retold for children by Hambly, who was the curator of African Ethnology for the Chicago Natural History Museum. Illustrated by artist James A. Porter, the first African-American art historian.…